Department of Psychology, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011, USA.
Subst Use Misuse. 2012 Jun-Jul;47(8-9):877-88. doi: 10.3109/10826084.2012.663276.
Economic analyses of substance misuse prevention assess the intervention cost necessary to achieve a particular outcome, and thereby provide an additional dimension for evaluating prevention programming. This article reviews several types of economic analysis, considers how they can be applied to substance misuse prevention, and discusses challenges to enhancing their international relevance, particularly their usefulness for informing policy decisions. Important first steps taken to address these challenges are presented, including the disease burden concept and the development of generalized cost-effectiveness, advances that facilitate international policy discussions by providing a common framework for evaluating health care needs and program effects.
经济分析在物质滥用预防中评估了实现特定结果所需的干预成本,从而为评估预防计划提供了另一个维度。本文综述了几种经济分析类型,探讨了它们在物质滥用预防中的应用,并讨论了提高其国际相关性的挑战,特别是在为政策决策提供信息方面的作用。为了解决这些挑战,已经采取了重要的初步措施,包括疾病负担概念和广义成本效益的发展,这些进展通过为评估医疗保健需求和计划效果提供共同框架,促进了国际政策讨论。