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Titolo: | Considerations in applying benefit-cost analysis : to preventive interventions for children, youth, and families : workshop summary / / Steve Olson and Kimber Bogard, rapporteurs ; Board on Children, Youth, and Families, Institute of Medicine and National Research Council of the National Academies |
Pubblicazione: | Washington, District of Columbia : , : The National Academies Press, , 2014 |
©2014 | |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (83 p.) |
Disciplina: | 362.82 |
Soggetto topico: | Family services - United States - Cost effectiveness |
Family services - United States - Evaluation | |
Cost effectiveness - Methodology | |
Persona (resp. second.): | OlsonSteve <1956-> |
BogardKimber | |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references. |
Nota di contenuto: | Introduction and themes of the workshop -- Benefit-cost analyses : examples from the field -- Assessing the costs and benefits of interventions -- Issues to consider in benefit-cost analysis -- Translating results to inform policy and practice. |
Sommario/riassunto: | "Benefit-cost analyses hold great promise for influencing policies related to children, youth, and families. By comparing the costs of preventive interventions with the long-term benefits of those interventions, benefit-cost analysis provides a tool for determining what kinds of investments have the greatest potential to reduce the physical, mental, and behavioral health problems of young people. More generally, the growth of benefit-cost analysis as a field of research and practice represents an exciting and promising trend in the development and implementation of public policies. [...] This report discusses a wide range of issues about benefit-cost analysis, including the level of research rigor that should be met before results from an evaluation are used to estimate or predict outcomes in a cost-benefit analysis; best practices and methodologies for costing prevention interventions; prevention outcomes that currently lend themselves to monetization; processes and methodologies that should be used when linking prevention outcomes to avoided costs or increased revenues; and best methods for handling risk and uncertainty in estimates."--Publisher's description |
Titolo autorizzato: | Considerations in applying benefit-cost analysis |
ISBN: | 0-309-30108-4 |
0-309-30106-8 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910819150603321 |
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