Background: Economic evaluation as an integral part of health technology assessment is today mostly applied to established technologies. Evaluating health care innovations in their early states of development has recently attracted attention. However, while it offers a number of benefits, it...

Objectives: To critically examine the economic evidence on Cystic Fibrosis (CF) screening and to understand issues relating to the transferability of findings to the Australian context for policy decisions. Methods: A systematic literature search identified 25 economic studies with empirical...

Currently, most developed countries’ decisions about health-care policy must address a major challenge: the rapidly rising costs of health care. It is estimated that one third of this annual increment is due to the incorporation of health technology advances in medical practice. So the...

This paper investigates the average effects of (firm-provided) workplace health promotion measures in form of the analysis of sickness absenteeism and health circles/courses on labour market out-comes of the firms' employees. Exploiting linked employer-employee panel data that consist of rich...

This paper investigates the average effects of (firm-provided) workplace health promotion measures in form of the analysis of sickness absenteeism and health circles/courses on labour market out­comes of the firms' employees. Exploiting linked employer-employee panel data that consist of rich...

This paper investigates the average effects of (firm-provided) workplace health promotion measures in form of the analysis of sickness absenteeism and health circles/courses on labour market out-comes of the firms' employees. Exploiting linked employer-employee panel data that consist of rich...