{"id":4837,"date":"2024-08-06T09:42:15","date_gmt":"2024-08-05T23:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/cah\/?p=4837"},"modified":"2025-01-09T14:07:47","modified_gmt":"2025-01-09T04:07:47","slug":"an-introduction-to-economic-modelling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/cah\/2024\/08\/06\/an-introduction-to-economic-modelling\/","title":{"rendered":"An introduction to economic modelling"},"content":{"rendered":"

Synopsis:\u00a0<\/strong>Adolescent health can be improved when evidence-based interventions are provided to those who need them. However, demonstrating that interventions are effective, acceptable and feasible to implement is not always enough to have them adopted by governments or other agencies. This is because governments need to make choices about what to fund in the context of constrained budgets, and must consider whether spending money on an intervention represents better value than spending that money somewhere else. A major objective of economic analyses is to generative evidence to support these funding decisions, which is critical for this final step to impact: taking effective, acceptable and feasible interventions and having them funded. This session went into details about the types of evidence government’s use when considering funding decisions, how economic analyses can be included in research to make sure this important final step is considered, and some examples from adolescent health.<\/p>\n

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