Research progress of equity-informative health economic evaluation
Traditional health economic evaluation mainly focuses on efficiency and lacks quantitative consideration of equity.To further quantify different equity factors based on traditional economic evaluation,equity-informative economic evaluations have been gradually developed.This paper reviews and summarizes 5 methods to incorporate equity into economic evaluations,among which the 3 widely used including equity-based weighting(EBW),distributional cost-effectiveness analysis(DCEA),and extended cost-effectiveness analysis(ECEA)are introduced in detail regarding basic concept,data requirements,advantages and disadvantages.The equity-informative economic evaluations will provide an effective tool for decision-makers to trade off between the efficiency maximization and distributional equity in the allocation of health resources formally and transparently,and will have a good prospect in China.However,the lack of relevant basic data is one of the main challenges limiting the practical application of such methods.It is also a research barrier that future researchers in related fields need to break through.
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