| Description |
xi, 210 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
1. The economic evaluation of counselling -- 2. Economics, ethics and counselling -- 3. The main types of economic evaluation -- 4. The components of an economic evaluation: cost-effectiveness analysis -- 5. The cost-effectiveness of counselling: reviewing the evidence -- 6. Pre-analysis stage: problem definition, objectives and options -- 7. Data collection I: study design -- 8. Data collection II: cost measurement -- 9. Data collection III: outcome measurement -- 10. Analysing cost-effectiveness data -- 11. Counselling case studies |
| Summary |
Written jointly by a counsellor and an economist, the book is intended to help counsellors and service providers carry out simple cost-effectiveness analysis in their own setting, with a good understanding of the purposes, methods and limitations of the tools they are using. Practical and informative, Evaluating the Cost-Effectiveness of Counselling in Health Care will be useful to all those who currently provide or are considering the development of a counselling service |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [201]-206) and index |
| Subject |
Cost effectiveness.
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Counseling -- Economic aspects.
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Health counseling.
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Cost-Benefit Analysis -- economics.
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Counseling -- economics.
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Quality Assurance, Health Care -- economics.
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| Author |
Rowland, Nancy, 1954-
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| LC no. |
94047491 |
| ISBN |
0415076609 (hbk.) |
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0415076617 (paperback) |
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