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WHO-CHOICE

CHOICE = CHOosing Interventions that are Cost Effective

The role of the World Health Organization (WHO) includes working with countries to provide the evidence required by decision-makers to set priorities and improve the performance of their health systems.

WHO-CHOICE contributes to this evidence base by assembling regional databases on the costs, impact on population health and cost-effectiveness of key health interventions. It also provides a contextualization tool which makes it possible to adapt regional results to the country level. This work started in 1998 with the development of standard tools and methods which have been used to generate the regional databases. For more information, please see:

- Development of WHO Guidelines on Generalized Cost-Effectiveness Analysis [pdf 146kb]
- Generalized Cost Effectiveness Analysis: A Guide [pdf 5.12Mb]
- Making Choices in Health: WHO Guide to Cost-Effectiveness Analysis

The work is now focusing on the country contextualisation tools and subsequent policy dialogue. For more information, please see:

Generalized Cost Effectiveness Analysis for national-level priority- setting in the health sector [pdf 357kb]

NEW!
As part of an ongoing process of WHO-CHOICE revision, an updated set of unit cost estimates for the year 2005 have been produced, both for WHO sub-regions and member states.
:: Country-specific unit cost estimates for 2005
NEW UNIT COST ESTIMATES FOR THE YEAR 2005 NOW AVAILABLE


NEW!

WHO Bulletin Editorial: "What will it cost to attain the health MDGs?" [pdf 68kb]

Costs of scaling-up intervention coverage - an overview of current work at WHO [pdf 154kb]
PUBLICATIONS

Published Papers
List of WHO-CHOICE published papers

Discussion Papers
List of WHO-CHOICE discussion papers

Related Publications
Health financing policy papers
National Health Accounts documents


RELATED LINKS

List of WHO-CHOICE related links
CONTACT US

Feedback on the CHOICE web site please e-mail: whochoice@who.int


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