Health Economics from Theory to Practice

1. Introduction.- Part I. Health Economic Principles and Practice for Robustly Evaluating Health System Investment with Trial, Model and Multiplier Methods Across Individual and Community Level Analyses.- 2. Principles and Practice for Trial Based Health Economic Analysis.- 3. Avoiding Frankenstein's Monster and Partial Analysis Problems: Robustly Synthesizing, Translating and Extrapolating Evidence.- 4. Beyond the Individual - Evaluating Community Based Health Promotion and Prevention Strategies and Palliative Care Domains of Effect.- Part II. Joint Research and Reimbursement Questions, Optimising Local and Global Trial Design and Decision Making Under Uncertainty within and Across Jurisdictions with Value of Information Methods.- 5. The Value of Value of Information Methods to Decision Making: What VOI Measures Enable Optimising Joint Research and Reimbursement Decisions within a Jurisdiction?.- 6. Globally Optimal Societal Decision Maker Trials.- 7. Value of INFORMATION, Pricing under Uncertainty and Risk Sharing with Optimal Global Trial Design.- Part III. Regulating Strategies and Providers in Practice: the Net Benefit Correspondence Theorem Enabling Robust Comparison of Multiple Strategies, Outcomes and Provider Efficiency in Practice Consistent with Net Benefit Maximisation.- 8. Best Informing Multiple Strategy Cost Effectiveness Analysis and Societal Decision Making - the Cost Disutility Plane and Expected Net Loss Curves and Frontiers.- 9. Including Quality of Care in Efficiency Measures: Creating Incentives Consistent with Maximising Net Benefit in Practice.- 10. Multiple Outcome Cost-Effectiveness Analysis in Cost-Disutility Space.- Part IV. The Health Shadow Price and Other Key Political Economy and Policy Issues - Appropriate Threshold Pricing and Policy Application of Methods for Optimizing Community Net Benefit with Budget Constraints.- 11. The Health Shadow Price and Economically Meaningful Threshold Values.- 12. Policy Implications and Applications

Simon Eckermann is Senior Professor of Health Economics at the Australian Health Services Research Institute and University of Wollongong. His research interests include robust methods for cost effectiveness evidence synthesis and translation, multiple strategy and efficiency comparisons allowing for quality of care consistent with maximising net benefit, multiplier methods in health promotion settings, multiple domain comparisons in palliative care settings and value of information methods for optimally informing joint research, reimbursement, implementation and pricing decisions.

In the last 15 years Prof. Eckermann has published more than 60 related health economics papers in high impact international health economics, policy and medical journals and taught associated principles and methods to more than 500 students from a wide range of clinical, research, policy and health technology assessment backgrounds, primarily in the Health Economics from Theory to Practice course developed with Professor Andrew Willan. He also actively sits on and undertakes guideline revision and health economics educational activities for bodies including the PBAC Economic Sub-Committee, Palliative Care Trials Scientific Committee, Prostheses List Advisory Committee, Victorian Cancer Agency and Food Standards ANZ and is a CI on competitive research grants totalling more than a $25 million over the past decade.