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© 2019 ISPOR–The Professional Society for Health Economics and Outcomes Research In this journal there has been considerable discussion regarding the development of tools for valuing the multiple attributes that arise from complex interventions with benefits beyond health. Nevertheless, unlike the rigorous underpinnings of cost-utility analysis, much of this work has been taking place in fragmented research communities and without theoretical underpinnings, leading to a call for better and more comprehensive frameworks. We discuss the challenges faced by economic evaluation using as our example a “social prescribing” intervention, a novel health intervention based on the social model of health. We suggest a mixed-methods approach to uncover important attributes and then combine tools from health economics and economics to provide measures of benefit in a common money numeraire. This approach provides the theoretical underpinnings necessary for deliberate, transparent, and structured decision-making processes. It also enables the correct allocation of costs within complex payment systems. We suggest that, because of the complexities of randomized controlled trials, interventions should be introduced in a way that allows the application of causal analysis for evaluation. In the short term, such evaluations may be challenging and expensive. Nevertheless, as has happened with health economics evaluation and the quality-adjusted life-year, when a common set of attributes is agreed upon, the expense will fall and these methods can become embedded in interventions with diffuse outcomes.
Author(s): Wildman J, Wildman JM
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Value in Health
Year: 2019
Volume: 22
Issue: 5
Pages: 511-517
Print publication date: 01/05/2019
Online publication date: 17/05/2019
Acceptance date: 05/01/2019
Date deposited: 18/01/2019
ISSN (print): 1098-3015
ISSN (electronic): 1524-4733
Publisher: Elsevier
URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jval.2019.01.002
DOI: 10.1016/j.jval.2019.01.002
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