Background:
Efficiency and equity are, alongside effectiveness, important goals of healthcare policy and systems internationally. Considerations of equity and economic aspects of interventions are key components of the evidence-base needed to inform healthcare decision-making. This Special Session will explore interactions between economics and equity perspectives and evidence through presentation and discussion of four oral papers profiling current empirical studies/methods.
Chairs:
Miranda Mugford, Convenor, Campbell & Cochrane Economics Methods Group
Peter Tugwell, Convenor, Cochrane Health Equity Field-Campbell Equity Methods Group
Papers/Presenters:
What place for equity considerations in economic evaluation? David McDaid, London School of Economics & Political Science, UK
Equity and economic evaluation in public health. Helen Weatherly, Centre for Health Economics, University of York, UK.
Is there always a trade-off between efficiency and equity? A review of evidence from immunization programs. Damian Walker, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, USA.
Costs and cost-outcomes of school feeding programs in Africa. Elizabeth Kristjansson, Institute of Population Health, University of Ottawa, Canada.
Other authors (in order): Rae Galloway (lead), Aulo Gelli, Ute Meir, Donald Bundy, and Francisco Espejo.