Research progress of equity-informative health economic evaluation
10.12173/j.issn.1005-0698.202406026
- VernacularTitle:引入公平性信息的卫生经济性评价方法与研究进展
- Author:
Nan FANG
1
;
Xiaoning HE
;
Jing WU
Author Information
1. 天津大学医学部药物科学与技术学院(天津 300072);天津大学社会科学调查与数据中心(天津 300072)
- Keywords:
Economic evaluation;
Equity;
Equity-based weighting;
Distributional cost-effectiveness;
Extended cost-effectiveness analysis
- From:
Chinese Journal of Pharmacoepidemiology
2024;33(8):929-937
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
-
Abstract:
Traditional health economic evaluation mainly focuses on efficiency and lacks quantitative consideration of equity.To further quantify different equity factors based on traditional economic evaluation,equity-informative economic evaluations have been gradually developed.This paper reviews and summarizes 5 methods to incorporate equity into economic evaluations,among which the 3 widely used including equity-based weighting(EBW),distributional cost-effectiveness analysis(DCEA),and extended cost-effectiveness analysis(ECEA)are introduced in detail regarding basic concept,data requirements,advantages and disadvantages.The equity-informative economic evaluations will provide an effective tool for decision-makers to trade off between the efficiency maximization and distributional equity in the allocation of health resources formally and transparently,and will have a good prospect in China.However,the lack of relevant basic data is one of the main challenges limiting the practical application of such methods.It is also a research barrier that future researchers in related fields need to break through.
