"This book provides the reader with a comprehensive set of instructions and examples of how to perform a cost-benefit analysis (CBA) of a health intervention. Developed out of a course run by Jordan Louviere at the University of Technology, Sydney, entitled An Introduction to Stated Preference Discrete Choice Modelling it has a particular focus on the use of stated preference survey methods to identify consumer preference data, as well as the use of recent developments in cost-effectiveness analysis within a CBA framework. In doing so, the most up to date methodologies for CBA are compiled in a comprehensive manner with the aim of advancing the methodology of CBA in healthcare."--Publisher.

Methods for evaluating health and health care : underlying theory and implications for practical application / Philip M. Clarke -- Shadow pricing in health care cost-benefit analyses / Emma McIntosh -- Costing methodology for applied cost-benefit analysis in health care / Emma McIntosh -- Valuation and cost-benefit analysis in health and environmental economics / F. Reed Johnson and W.L. (Vic) Adamowicz -- Benefit assessment for cost-benefit analysis studies in health care using contingent valuation methods / Emma J. Frew -- Benefit assessment for cost-benefit analysis studies in health care : a guide to carrying out a stated preference willingness to pay survey in health care / Emma J. Frew -- Applied cost-benefit analysis in health care : an empirical application in spinal surgery / Emma McIntosh [and others] -- Using revealed preference methods to value health care : the travel cost approach / Philip M. Clarke -- Experimental design and the estimation of willingness to pay in choice experiments for health policy evaluation / Richard T. Carson and Jordan J. Louviere -- Benefit assessment for cost-benefit analysis studies in health care using discrete choice experiments : estimating welfare in a health care setting / Jordan J. Louviere and Denzil G. Fiebig -- A practical guide to reporting and presenting stated preference discrete choice experiment results in cost-benefit analysis studies in health care / Emma McIntosh -- The relevance of cost-benefit analysis in health care : concluding comments / Emma McIntosh, W.L. (Vic) Adamovicz, and F. Reed Johnson.