Health Sciences 3840A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Economic Evaluation, Cost Driver, Psychoactive Drug
7 Jan 2020
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Potential effects of the choice of costing perspective on cost estimates: an example based on. Dr"s often asked to assume a decision maker role. When perspectives other than health are not considered in costing estimates the implicit assumption is that there are no costs differences between the groups being compared with regard to the costs form the other perspectives. Ministry of health is not the only government sector that is affected by community mental health (cmh) programs: justice and social services sectors affected too. Not a full societal costing perspective: didn"t include costs borne by family with regard to lost work hours, caregiving, and other private health care services. Not very generalizable: canada doesn"t have a standardized list of unit costs, variation in estimates among fiscal jurisdictions. Clients who participated may not be representative of all clients. Need to clarify the programs cost drivers.
