Challenges in the economic evaluation of public health interventions

Abstract

Economists face challenges when trying to apply the standard methods of economic evaluation to the area of public health. These challenges have to be tackled because there is a vast need to extend the experiences gained in health technology assessment to public health. This review aims to summarise the findings of the main publications which made an attempt to name and discuss these challenges. As long as solutions are not to be found in the literature, decision-makers and economists have to work on these challenges.