8.2 Health and welfare economics
Main inclusion criteria
Economic evaluation of health and social care interventions and delivery, including:
- cost-benefit analysis of services including economic modelling
- cost effectiveness or economic feasibility of implementing new interventions or technologies within health services
- economic assessment of service productivity and outcomes
- health care costs
- development and evaluation of economic models of health care
Advice on research activities
Includes research with a main aim of investigating health and welfare economics.
Excludes clinical trials and health technology assessments with a mandatory economic evaluation component. In these cases, code for the therapeutic investigation only.
Official terminology
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Full name of code |
Short name | Unique ID |
| 8.2 Health and welfare economics | 8.2 Economics |
HRCS_RA_8_2 |
Related external links
Common Scientific Outline (CSO) – 6.4 Cost Analyses and Health Care Delivery