Table of Contents

Part I The principles of economic evaluation 1 The economic evaluation of counselling 2 Economics, ethics and counselling 3 The main types of economic evaluation 4 The components of an economic evaluation: cost-effectiveness analysis 5 The cost-effectiveness of counselling: reviewing the evidence Part II The practice of economic evaluation, 6 Pre-analysis stage: problem definition, objectives and options 7 Data collection I: study design 8 Data collection II: cost measurement 9 Data collection IE: outcome measurement 10 Analysing cost-effectiveness data 11 Counselling case studies

About the Author

Keith Tolley is a Lecturer in Health Economics at the University of Nottingham. Nancy Rowland is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Health Economics, University of York and a counsellor in private practice.

Reviews

`a useful introduction to the principles of economic analyses in health care' British Medical Journal