Department of Human Development and Family Studies, Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA, USA.
Prevention Economics Planning & Research Network, State College, PA, USA.
Am J Community Psychol. 2017 Dec;60(3-4):309-315. doi: 10.1002/ajcp.12200. Epub 2017 Nov 20.
Restricted public budgets and increasing efforts to link the impact of community interventions to public savings have increased the use of economic evaluation. While this type of evaluation can be important for program planning, it also raises important ethical issues about how we value the time of local stakeholders who support community interventions. In particular, researchers navigate issues of scientific accuracy, institutional inequality, and research utility in their pursuit of even basic cost estimates. We provide an example of how we confronted these issues when estimating the costs of a large-scale community-based intervention. Principles for valuing community members' time and conducting economic evaluations of community programs are discussed.
有限的公共预算和越来越努力将社区干预措施的影响与公共储蓄联系起来，这增加了经济评估的使用。虽然这种类型的评估对于项目规划很重要，但它也提出了关于我们如何重视支持社区干预措施的当地利益相关者的时间的重要伦理问题。特别是，研究人员在追求甚至基本成本估算时，需要解决科学准确性、制度不平等和研究效用等问题。我们提供了一个例子，说明我们在估算大规模基于社区的干预措施的成本时如何应对这些问题。讨论了衡量社区成员时间价值和对社区计划进行经济评估的原则。
