This book presents current thinking on health economics methodology and application to the evaluation of public health interventions. It covers the history of economics of public health and the economic rationale for government investment in prevention, principles of health economics, evidence synthesis, and more.

1: Rhiannon Tudor Edwards and Robert Atenstaedt: Introduction to Public Health and Public Health Economics 2: Seow Tien Yeo, Huw Lloyd-Williams, and Rhiannon Tudor Edwards: The supply and demand of prevention goods and services and the need for economic evaluation 3: Rhiannon Tudor Edwards and Emma McIntosh: Applying Methods of Economic Evaluation to Public Health: Contemporary solutions to traditional challenges 4: Olivia Wu, Joanna Charles, and Nathan Bray: Synthesising evidence for economic evaluations of public health interventions 5: Carys Jones, Joanna Charles, and Rhiannon Tudor Edwards: Identification, measurement and valuation of resource use in public health intervention economic evaluation 6: Emma McIntosh: Identifying, measuring and valuing outcomes within economic evaluations of public health interventions 7: Rhiannon Tudor Edwards: Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of Public Health Interventions 8: Rhiannon Tudor Edwards and Eira Winrow: Cost-Utility Analysis of Public Health Interventions 9: Emma McIntosh, Camilla Baba, and Willings Botha: Cost-benefit analysis for applied public health economic evaluation 10: Ned Hartfiel and Rhiannon Tudor Edwards: Cost-Consequence Analysis of Public Health Interventions 11: Hazel Squires and Kathleen Boyd: Use of Modelling in the Economic Evaluation of Public Health Interventions 12: Joanna Charles, Alice Jones, and Huw Lloyd-Williams: Return on investment, social return on investment and the business case for prevention 13: Huw Lloyd-Williams: The role of Multi criteria decision analysis (MCDA) in public health economic evaluation 14: Joanna Charles and Rhiannon Tudor Edwards: To disinvest or invest? The role of Programme budgeting and marginal analysis (PBMA) for economic evaluation and prioritisation between public health interventions 15: Rhiannon Tudor Edwards, Emma McIntosh, and Eira Winrow: International Perspectives and Future Directions for Research and Policy

An introduction to the principles of health economics and economic evaluation relevant to the specific challenges of public health and its aims of improving population health Brings together the key principles of public health, relevant to economic evaluation Includes examples of real world economic evaluation alongside trials and other study designs of public health interventions New data and research presented in a short and concise format, making the book easy to use for students and researchers

Rhiannon Tudor Edwards is Professor of Health Economics at Bangor University and founding co-director of the Centre for Health Economics and Medicines Evaluation (CHEME) at Bangor. She has a long-standing commitment to developing and applying methods for the economic evaluation of public health interventions to improve population health. She has published over 150 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters in health economics. Emma McIntosh is Professor of Health Economics and Deputy Director of the Health Economics and Health Technology Assessment team at the University of Glasgow. She is also Director of the NIHR Global Health Research Group on estimating the prevalence, quality of life, economic and societal impact of arthritis in Tanzania. Prof McIntosh joined the University of Glasgow in May 2011 as programme leader on the Economics of Population Health

An introduction to the principles of health economics and economic evaluation relevant to the specific challenges of public health and its aims of improving population health Brings together the key principles of public health, relevant to economic evaluation Includes examples of real world economic evaluation alongside trials and other study designs of public health interventions New data and research presented in a short and concise format, making the book easy to use for students and researchers