ROI in Public Health Policy Supporting Decision Making
The demand for return in investment (ROI) analyses in public health is on the rise as a ‘business case’ needs to be presented before a public health programme can be funded. This book explains the science behind ROI analyses and shows how policy makers ca
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Subhash Pokhrel, Lesley Owen, Kathryn Coyle and Doug Coyle
ROI in Public Health Policy
Subhash Pokhrel • Lesley Owen Kathryn Coyle • Doug Coyle
ROI in Public Health Policy Supporting Decision Making
Subhash Pokhrel Health Economics Research Group (HERG), Division of Health Sciences Brunel University London Uxbridge, UK
Lesley Owen Centre for Guidelines National Institute for Health and Care Excellence London, UK
Kathryn Coyle Health Economics Research Group (HERG) Brunel University London Uxbridge, UK
Doug Coyle School of Epidemiology and Public Health University of Ottawa Ottawa, ON, Canada
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Dedicated to colleagues and stakeholders from whom we have learnt a great deal.
Preface
It was a mere coincidence that brought four of us together—several years ago we needed to contribute to an exciting National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) project that looked at the possibility of developing a decision support tool to help local policymakers build their business cases for tobacco control. At the time, each of us was at different career paths, and none of us realised this collaboration would eventually lead to a book of this nature. We believe that return on investment (ROI) analyses can be useful in supporting public health decisions, but more needs to be written to make
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