Economic Evaluations
The Department of Health is considering funding “fluvac” a vaccination for influenza. They want to know whether there is evidence that fluvac represents “value for money”. You are part of a team that has been asked to design a protocol for an economic evaluation. Your role in the team is to undertake the following:
Question 1
Justify why you believe that an economic evaluation is needed, including any additional information you might need to support your argument.
Question 2
Form a well-defined study question to help guide your economic evaluation?
Question 3
What type of economic evaluation do you think will be the most appropriate for answering your study question? Justify your choice.
Question 4
Describe the costs that you will collect under the following categories:
Direct health care
Direct non-health care
Indirect
Intangible
Question 5
Outline the sources that you would use for collecting the cost information for your economic evaluation.
Question 6:
Explain how you will value each of your resource inputs in your economic evaluation.