This list contains core book titles addressing methods of economic evaluation in health and public health, including the valuation of health states, as well as a list of selected titles applying economic evaluation to specific subject areas within the broad category of health and public health. Produced by AcademyHealth at the request of the National Library of Medicine’s National Information Center on Health Services Research and Health Care Technology, this list of book titles supplements a core library module (books, journals, bibliographic databases, and Web sites) on health economics created in September 2001. AcademyHealth staff worked with the Health Economics Research Group (HERG) at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), as well as experts in the field, to capture these additional core books.

This list is primarily geared to librarians interested in expanding their health economics collection or toward individuals who are new to the field or unfamiliar with books addressing economic evaluation in health and public health.
For additional information, or to provide comments, please contact Virginia Van Horne at virginia.vanhorne@academyhealth.org.

Economic Evaluation in Health

Boardman, Anthony, David H. Greenberg, D, Aidan R. Vining, and David L. Weimer. 1996. Cost-Benefit Analysis: Concepts and Practice. Second edition. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.

Donaldson, Cam, Miranda Mugford, and Luke Vale (eds.). 2002. Evidence-based Health Economics. London: BMJ Books.

Drummond, Michael F., Bernard J. O'Brien, Greg L. Stoddart, George W. Torrance, and O’Brien Drummond. 1997. Methods for the Economic Evaluation of Health Care Programmess. Second edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Drummond, Michael and Alistair McGuire. 2001. Economic Evaluation in Health Care: Merging Theory with Practice. New York: Oxford University Press.

Gold, Marthe R., Joanna E. Siegel, Louise B. Russell, and Milton C. Weinstein (eds.). 1996. Cost-effectiveness in Health and Medicine. New York: Oxford University Press.

Haddix, Anne C., Stephen M. Teutsch, and Phaedra S. Corso (eds.). 2003. Prevention Effectiveness: A Guide to Decision Analysis and Economic Evaluation. Second edition. New York: Oxford University Press.

Hunink, M.G. Myriam, Paul Glasziou, Joanna Siegel, Jane Weeks, Joseph Pliskin, Arthur Elstein, and Milton C. Weinstein. 2001. Decision Making in Health and Medicine: Integrating Evidence and Values. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press.

Johannesson, Magnus. 1996. Theory and Methods of Economic Evaluation of Health Care. Dordrecht, the Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers.

Muennig, Peter. 2002. Designing and Conducting Cost-Effectiveness Analyses in Medicine and Health Care. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.

Pettiti, Diana B. 2000. Meta-Analysis, Decision Analysis, and Cost-Effectiveness Analysis: Methods for Quantitative Synthesis in Medicine. Second edition. New York: Oxford University Press.

Sloan, Frank A. (ed.) 1995. Valuing Health Care: Costs, Benefits, and Effectiveness of Pharmaceuticals and Other Medical Technologies. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press.

World Health Organization 2003. Making Choices in Health: WHO Guide to Cost Effectiveness Analysis. Geneva: World Health Organizations.

Health State Valuation

Bateman, Ian., Richard T. Carson, Brett Day, Michael Hanemann, Nick Hanley, Tannis Hett, Michael Jones-Lee, Graham Loomes, Susan Mourato, Ece Ozdemiroglu, David W. Pearce, Rrobert Sugden, and John Swanson. 2002. Economic Valuation with Stated Preferences Techniques: A Manual. Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishers.

Freeman, A. Myrick, III. 2003. Measurement of Environmental and Resource Values: Theory and Methods. Second edition. Washington, D.C.: Resources for the Future Press.

Johansson, Per-Olov. 1995. Evaluating Health Risks: An Economic Approach. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press.

Kahneman, Daniel and Amos Tversky (eds.). 2000. Choices, Values, and Frames. New York: Russell Sage Foundation.

McDowell, Ian, and Claire Newell. 1996. Measuring Health: A Guide to Rating Scales and Questionnaires. Second edition. New York: Oxford University Press.

Murray, Christopher J.L., Joshua A. Salomon, Colin D. Mathers, and Alan D. Lopez (eds.) 2002. Summary Measures of Population Health: Concepts, Ethics, Measurement, and Applications. Geneva: World Health Organization.

Murray, Christoper J.L. and Alan Lopez D. 1996. The Global Burden of Disease: A Comprehensive Assessment of Mortality and Disability from Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors in 1990 and Projected to 2020. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard School of Public Health.

Patrick, Donald L. and Pennifer Erickson. 1993. Health Status and Health Policy: Quality of Life in Health Care Evaluation and Resource Allocation. New York: Oxford University Press.

Nord, Erik. 1999. Cost-Value Analysis in Health Care: Making Sense out of QALYs. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press.

Rice, Thomas. 2000. The Economics of Health Reconsidered. Second edition. Chicago: Health Administration Press.

Tolley, George, Donald Kenkel, and Robert Fabian (eds.). 1994. Valuing Health for Policy. An Economic Approach. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Viscusi, W. Kip. 1992. Fatal Tradeoffs: Public and Private Responsibilities for Risk. New York: Oxford University Press.

Applying Economic Evaluation to Public Health Topics

Caswell Julie A. (ed.) 1995. Valuing Food Safety and Nutrition. Boulder: Westview Press.

Dorman, Peter. 1996. Markets and Mortality: Economics, Dangerous Work, and the Value of Human Life. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Frank, Richard G., and Willard G. Manning, Jr. 1992. Economics and Mental Health. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.

Grossman, Michael, and Chee-Ruey Hsieh (eds.). 2001. The Economic Analysis of Substance Use and Abuse: The Experience of Developed Countries and Lessons for Developing Countries. Cheltenham, United Kingdom: Edward Elgar.

Hamilton, James T., and W. Kip Viscusi. 1999. Calculating Risks? The Spatial and Political Dimensions of Hazardous Waste Policy. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.

Harrington, Winston, Alan J. Krupnick, Walter O. Spofford, Jr. 1991. Economics and Episodic Disease: The Benefits of Preventing a Giardiasis Outbreak. Washington, D.C.: Resources for the Future.

Holtgrave, David R. (ed.) 1998. Handbook of Economic Evaluation of HIV Prevention Programs. New York: Plenum Press.

Jamison, Dean T., W. Henry Mosley, Anthony R. Meachem (eds.) 1993. Disease Control Priorities in Developing Countries. New York: Oxford University Press.

Johansson, Per-Olov. 1993. Cost-Benefit Analysis of Environmental Change. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press.

Leigh, J. Paul, Steven Markowitz, Marianne Fahs, and Philip Landrigan. 2000. The Cost of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses. Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan Press.

Manning, Willard G., Emmett B. Keeler, Joseph P. Newhouse, Elizabeth M. Sloss, and Jeffrey Wasserman. 1991. The Costs of Poor Health Habits. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press.

Mills, Anne & Kenneth Lee (eds.). 1993. Health Economics Research in Developing Countries. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Murphy, Kevin M. & Robert H. Topel (eds.). 2003. Measuring the Gains from Medical Research: An Economic Approach. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Pauly, Mark, Chester A. Robinson, Stephen J. Sepe, Merrile Sing, and Mary Kaye Willian (eds.). 1996. Supplying Vaccines: An Economic Analysis of Critical Issues. Amsterdam: IOS Press.

Smith, Rirchard, Robert Beaglehole, David Woodward, and Nick Drager (eds.). 2003. Global Public Goods for Health: Health Economic and Public Health Perspectives. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press.

Waitzman, Norman J., Richard M. Scheffler, and Patrick S. Romano 1996. The Cost of Birth Defects: Estimates of the Value of Prevention. Lanham, Md: University Press of America.

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