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Rita Faria

Rita is a health economist at the University of York working mainly in economic evaluation. See https://tinyurl.com/y8ogvhjw for her academic profile.

Opportunity costs, marginal productivity, and cost-effectiveness thresholds: providing useful analysis and communicating results

In our first post, we explained opportunity cost, marginal productivity (of a healthcare system), net benefit, and cost-effectiveness threshold. In this post, we put forward our views on how to use cost-effectiveness thresholds and the existing estimates of marginal productivity… Read More »Opportunity costs, marginal productivity, and cost-effectiveness thresholds: providing useful analysis and communicating results

Opportunity costs, marginal productivity, and cost-effectiveness thresholds: what are they and how are they related?

In this post, we explain key concepts of cost-effectiveness analysis in healthcare and how they are linked: opportunity cost, marginal productivity (of a healthcare system), net benefit, and cost-effectiveness threshold. In another post, to be published tomorrow, we will propose… Read More »Opportunity costs, marginal productivity, and cost-effectiveness thresholds: what are they and how are they related?