AbstractHealth economic evaluation research plays an important role in selecting cost-effective interventions. The purpose of this study was to assess the quality of published articles in Iranian journals related to economic evaluation in health care programs based on Drummond’s checklist in terms of numbers, features, and quality. In the present review study, published articles (Persian and En...

This review article aims to provide an introduction to the methodology of health economic assessment of a health technology. Attention is paid to defining the fundamental concepts and terms that are relevant to health economic assessments. The article describes the methodology underlying a cost study (identification, measurement and valuation of resource use, calculation of costs), an economic ...

A research was conducted to evaluate cassava production by women farmers in Igbo-Eze North Local Government Area of Enugu State, Nigeria. One hundred and twenty smallholder female cassava farmers were selected using multi-stage sampling. Data were collected from the respondents using questionnaire and interview schedule. Then descriptive statistics (mean, frequency and percentage) were used in ...

The United Nations agenda for sustainable development by the year 2030 proposes 17 sustainable development goals which include access to affordable, reliable and clean energy, sustained economic growth with full productive employment and, urgent action to mitigate environmental degradation. Planning for sustainable development requires integrating conflicting criteria on economy, energy, enviro...

The past three decades have seen a rapid growth in the discipline of health economics, particularly in the area of economic evaluation of health care interventions. The aim of this article is to provide an introduction to the concepts of economic evaluation in health care, and the methodological issues pertaining to the identification, measurement and valuation of costs and benefits. In a subse...

Editor—We, the NHS Economic Evaluation Database Research Team, agree with Smith that economic evaluations should contain comprehensive reporting of both clinical effectiveness and economic analysis and that the BMJ is right to implement this new policy. How the clinical trial results (which inform the economic evaluation) are obtained is often paramount to the understanding and quality of the e...

Ever since the sequencing of the human genome was completed, prediction of treatment response in terms of genetic variation has been seen as an important and achievable goal. Pharmacogenetics is the study of how genetic differences affect variation in response to medication. One potential goal of pharmacogenetics is to be able to deliver "personalized medicine" by making management decisions th...