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Introduction to Economic Evaluation of Health Promotion Interventions

Critical evaluation of published cost-effectiveness studies.

This final homework assignment will give students practice critically appraising the assumptions and limitations  of current practice of economic evaluation of public health programs and policies. As this is an introductory  course being able to critically appraise published literature is one of the core skills that students should gain  from this course.

As such, it is listed as one of the four learning objectives of the course. This assignment should  be viewed as a summative assessment of the broad conceptual framework of economic evaluation that you  have gained during the semester.

Please review the content in unit nine before completing this assignment in its entirety. Please also use Annex 9.1 (which is on page 345) in the fourth edition of the Drummond textbook. Students will remain working with their assigned case studies during this assignment. Students assigned to the HPV case will critically appraise the following article:

Jit, M., Brisson, M., Portnoy, A., & Hutubessy, R. (2014).Cost-effectiveness of female human papillomavirus vaccination in 179 countries: a PRIME modelling study. The Lancet Global health, 2(7), e406-e414.

Students assigned to the anorexia screening case will critically appraise the following article:

Wright, D. R., Austin, S. B., LeAnn Noh, H., Jiang, Y., & Sonneville, K. R. (2014). The cost-effectiveness of schoolbased eating disorder screening. If American journal of public health, 104(9), 1774-1782.

Please consult with the GW library and if you are unable to locate either of these articles.

Assignment

Students will work individually and will submit a critique of the overall model assumptions and evidence from their assigned reading. The critique includes completion of the checklist in Annex 9.1 in Drummond (2015). Students will need in their case groups to review their independent work and will then present to the rest of the class.

Although we will be reviewing draft work of this and other assignments during the live sessions please  review the section of your syllabus on academic integrity, with particular focus on plagiarism related to your
peers' work.

Deliverables:

• 1,000 word essay aligned with the Drummond checklist critiquing the quality of the assigned article

• Demonstrating understanding of the core components of a well-written peer-reviewed costeffectiveness study

• Identifying strengths of your assigned article using the Drummond checklist

• Identifying weaknesses of your assigned article using the Drummond checklist

• Identifying challenges of meeting the standards of best practice within the given case study field

Assignments 1-3

Homework Assignment 1: Evaluating Intervention Costs - Students will be assigned a hypothetical health promotion intervention case study outlining the intervention activities for a fictional health department program. Students will be required to complete a cost evaluation worksheet for the intervention in order to estimate the total cost of running the intervention over a one-year period.

Homework Assignment 2: Evaluating Cost-Effectiveness Using Decision Trees - Students will evaluate the cost-effectiveness of a hypothetical health promotion intervention using a decision tree.

Homework Assignment 3: Evaluating Cost-Effectiveness Using Markov Cohort Models - Students will build and evaluate the cost-effectiveness of a hypothetical health promotion intervention using a spreadsheet-based Markov cohort model.

Homework Assignment 4: Critical Evaluation of Economic Evaluation - Students will work individually and will submit a critique of the overall model assumptions and evidence from one assigned reading. The critique should be guided by the checklist in Annex 9.1 in Drummond (2015).

Attachment:- Anorexia.rar