With the skyrocketing costs of modern health care, many health policy planners turn to cost effective analysis (CEA) or cost benefit analysis (CBA) to get quantitative answers for appropriateness of health procedures. This article analyzes how well approaches like CEA or CBA handle the hidden ethical judgements for such problems as: alternative treatments for an identical goal, the most effec...

Introduction Animal health economics is a discipline, which does not belong to the core of veterinary science but is becoming more and more important as an aid to decision making on animal health interventions at various levels. The levels of decision making range from the individual animal to the national herd and finally to international disease control efforts. The growing importance of anim...

As the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic continues to unfold there is an untold number of trade-offs being made in every country around the globe. The experience in the United Kingdom and Canada to date has not seen much uptake of health economics methods. We provide some thoughts on how this could take place, specifically in three areas. Firstly, this can involve understanding the i...

Rather than reviewing the many studies of cost effectiveness in osteoporosis, this paper reviews the principles of cost-effectiveness analysis and the gaps in our knowledge that are required to improve such analyses in osteoporosis. These include more information on the cost of fractures and their consequences on health states, particularly on an international basis. New developments include th...

Social security and Medicare present entirely different challenges, says this authority. But you would not know that to listen to Alan Greenspan’s comments last winter. He said both programs would have to be cut. In contrast, future social security obligations can be accommodated without serious changes, this noted economist argues. The growth of Medicare obligations is much faster and will ind...

It is becoming widely accepted that research which considers only the outcome and not the costs associated with new technologies in health care, is of limited value in making decisions about the use of scarce resources. Economic evaluation is becoming a standard feature of clinical research but many published economic evaluations fall short of best practice in their methodology. We have describ...

The oral health-systemic connection has been well documented for many conditions, with strong evidence in 2017 connecting oral health and rheumatoid arthritis. 9 The results of this analysis indicated a strong correlation between dental visits and overall selfrated health, and this relationship is getting stronger over time. In other words, states in which adults are more likely to visit the de...