ABSTRACT
Economic evaluation techniques have been used since the late 1960s to evaluate healthcare programs toassistinresourceallocationandpolicy-makingdecisions(Grosse,1970).Ÿesetechniquesallfocus oncomparingsomemeasureoftheoutput,outcomes,orconsequencesofaprogramwiththecostsof theinputsusedtoprovidethoseoutcomes.Policymakerscanusethetechniquestoidentifyalternatives toagivenpolicyandtofocusontheconsequencesofprovidingadditionalresourcestooneprogram compared with another (Grosse et al., 2007).
