Distributional Cost-Effectiveness Analysis (DCEA)

Abstract: I will present a new framework for analysing the health inequality impacts of health care programmes, called "Distributional Cost-Effectiveness Analysis" (DCEA). The framework provides evidence to inform health care decisions with the twin aims of reducing unfair health inequality as well as improving total health, and can reflect a range of value judgements about which dimensions of health variation are consider unfair and about different types and levels of societal aversion to health inequality. The framework is illustrated through an application to ways of increasing uptake of the NHS bowel cancer screening programme. DCEA is likely to be particularly useful for helping to inform the design of programmes with substantial impacts on population health when decision makers have important concerns for reducing health inequality.

For more information please visit the DCEA web page http://www.york.ac.uk/che/research/equity/d-c-e-a/phrc/