ABSTRACT

Limited resources in health care mean that the value of counselling is decided in a highly competitive economic arena. Keith Tolley and Nancy Rowland have written a practical guide to the basic principles of evaluating cost-effectiveness to enable counsellors and service providers to carry out analysis for themselves. They provide helpful definitions of technical terms and use case studies to demonstrate how to apply the theory in different contexts.

part I|78 pages

The principles of economic evaluation

chapter Chapter 1|11 pages

The economic evaluation of counselling

chapter Chapter 2|9 pages

Economics, ethics and counselling

chapter Chapter 3|11 pages

The main types of economic evaluation

chapter Chapter 4|14 pages

The components of an economic evaluation

Cost-effectiveness analysis

part II|121 pages

The practice of economic evaluation

chapter Chapter 6|13 pages

Pre-analysis stage

Problem definition, objectives and options

chapter Chapter 7|5 pages

Data collection I

Study design

chapter Chapter 8|25 pages

Data collection II

Cost measurement

chapter Chapter 9|13 pages

Data collection III

Outcome measurement

chapter Chapter 10|24 pages

Analysing cost-effectiveness data

chapter Chapter 11|39 pages

Counselling case studies