Visualizing value for money in public health interventions

Social Return on Investment (SROI) methodology to account for value for money of public health interventions: a systematic review

BACKGROUND Increased scarcity of public resources has led to a concomitant drive to account for value-for-money of interventions. Traditionally, cost-effectiveness, cost-utility and cost-benefit analyses have been used to assess value-for-money of public health interventions. The social return on investment (SROI) methodology has capacity to measure broader socio-economic outcomes, analysing an...

Value for Money in Health Spending.PDF

Health economics evidence for medical nutrition: are these interventions value for money in integrated care?

BACKGROUND Health care decision-makers have begun to realize that medical nutrition plays an important role in the delivery of care, and it needs to be seen as a sole category within the overall health care reimbursement system to establish the value for money. Indeed, improving health through improving patients' nutrition may contribute to the cost-effectiveness and financial sustainability of...

Tobacco money and public health.

Over 100 years ago, George Bernard Shaw, speaking through his protagonists, weapons manufacturer Andrew Undershaft and Undershaft’s daughter Salvation Army Major Barbara, explored the uneasy relationship that existed, and exists still, between ill-gotten gains and the public good. Now, a century later, a similar uneasy relationship exists. But this time it is not cannons versus religion, but to...

Value For Money in public sector corporate services