Measuring non-health outcomes of health promotion for economic evaluations

Abstract: For adequate economic evaluations, it is of crucial importance to have insight into all costs and benefits of health promotion initiatives, but little is known about possible non-health outcomes. Marie-Jeanne Aarts works as a post-doc researcher at Maastricht University (the Netherlands), on the INFORMEH project, which aims to develop an instrument for outcome measurement in economic evaluations of health promotion. The central research questions of this project are: “What are relevant broader health and non-health related outcomes of health promotion? What is the relative importance of these outcomes?”. After an introduction about the set up of this project, which consists of three phases (literature review, Delphi panel, survey), Marie-Jeanne will present a concept of a theoretical framework about which non-health outcomes to include in economic evaluations of health promotion. In this seminar, Marie-Jeanne would like to discuss, the (im)possibilities of taking into account non-health outcomes in economic evaluations of health promotion.