Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/63097 
Authors: 
Year of Publication: 
2005
Series/Report no.: 
Memorandum No. 2005,16
Publisher: 
University of Oslo, Department of Economics, Oslo
Abstract: 
Cost-effectiveness analysis often plays an important role in prioritization among different types of public health expenditures. Cost-effectiveness is defined as the maximal health benefits for given expenditures on health care. With a private health sector as a supplement to the public sector, the socially optimal ranking of treatments to be included in the public health program is changed. The larger are the costs per treatment for a given benefit-cost ratio, the higher priority should the treatment be given. The more heterogeneous preferences for a particular treatment are, the lower priority should this treatment be given. If the health budget does not exceed the socially optimal size, treatments with sufficiently low costs should not be performed by the public health system if there is a private alternative.
Subjects: 
public health
prioritization
cost-effectiveness analysis
JEL: 
H42
H51
I10
I18
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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