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Coronavirus : Where Has All the Health Economics Gone? Donaldson, Cam; Mitton, Craig, 1972-

Abstract

As the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic continues to unfold there is an untold number of trade-offs being made in every country around the globe. The experience in the United Kingdom and Canada to date has not seen much uptake of health economics methods. We provide some thoughts on how this could take place, specifically in three areas. Firstly, this can involve understanding the impact of lockdown policies on national productivity. Secondly, there is great importance in studying trade-offs with respect to enhancing health system capacity and the impact of the mix of private-public financing. Finally, there are key trade-offs that will continue to be made both in terms of access to testing and ventilators which would benefit greatly from economic appraisal. In short, health economics could – and we would argue most certainly should – play a much more prominent role in policy-making as it relates to the current as well as future pandemics.

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Title
Coronavirus : Where Has All the Health Economics Gone?
Creator
Donaldson, Cam; Mitton, Craig, 1972-
Contributor
Centre for Clinical Epidemiology and Evaluation
Publisher
Kerman University of Medical Sciences
Date Issued
2020-06-22
Description
As the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic continues to unfold there is an untold number of trade-offs being made in every country around the globe. The experience in the United Kingdom and Canada to date has not seen much uptake of health economics methods. We provide some thoughts on how this could take place, specifically in three areas. Firstly, this can involve understanding the impact of lockdown policies on national productivity. Secondly, there is great importance in studying trade-offs with respect to enhancing health system capacity and the impact of the mix of private-public financing. Finally, there are key trade-offs that will continue to be made both in terms of access to testing and ventilators which would benefit greatly from economic appraisal. In short, health economics could – and we would argue most certainly should – play a much more prominent role in policy-making as it relates to the current as well as future pandemics.
Subject
Health economics; Trade-offs; Opportunity cost; Economic appraisal; Coronavirus
Genre
Article
Type
Text
Language
eng
Date Available
2021-06-17
Provider
Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
Rights
Attribution 4.0 International
DOI
10.14288/1.0398459
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/2429/78716
Affiliation
Medicine, Faculty of; Non UBC; Population and Public Health (SPPH), School of
Citation
Donaldson C, Mitton C. Coronavirus: Where has all the health economics gone? International journal of health policy and management. 06/2020;9(11):466-468.
Publisher DOI
10.34172/ijhpm.2020.108
Peer Review Status
Reviewed
Scholarly Level
Faculty
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Publisher
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http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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