[SOLVED] Health Eco Assessment 2

This assessment task requires short answers to the following questions.

Question 1

Suppose that a new vaccine has become available for the invasive meningococcal disease (IMD) caused by Neisseria Meningitidis group B strains. You have been asked to design an economic evaluation to assess the costs and effects of the new vaccine (compared with no vaccination) to inform public funding decisions.

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  • Taking a healthcare system perspective, identify the range of important health care resources (cost categories and cost items) that you may include in your evaluation
  • What additional resources would need to be considered if you were requested to perform the evaluation from a societal perspective?

Question 2

To determine the optimal strategy for prostate cancer screening for a fully government-funded program, an economic model was developed to estimate the costs and outcomes of two potential screening programs to measure prostate specific antigen (PSA) in comparison to a “no screening program” option. The model followed a cohort over a fifty-year time horizon. The results were: No screening

  • Total costs: $15 million
  • Total life-years: 10,000

Program A (Screening men aged 50-75 every 5 years)

  • Total costs: $45 million
  • Total life-years: 25,000

Program B (Screening men aged 40-75 every 2 years)

  • Total costs: $85 million
  • Total life-years: 30,000

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  • Identify the 7 key building blocks/parameters associated with economic evaluation and describe these in the context of the task.
  • Complete the following table:

 

Strategy Cost ($) Life-years Incremental costs ($) Incremental life- years gained (LYG) Incremental $ per LYG ($)
                   vs
                   vs
                   vs
                   vs

 

  • What type of economic evaluation is this?
  • Briefly comment on how the results should be interpreted

Question 3

Is it possible for a new drug to be less clinically effective than its comparator but, at the same time, be cost-effective? With reference to the cost-effectiveness plane, briefly explain why or why not.

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