Economic Evaluations;

Economic Evaluations; The Department of Health is considering funding “fluvac” a vaccination for influenza. They want to know whether there is evidence that fluvac represents “value for money”. You are part of a team that has been asked to design a protocol for an economic evaluation. Your role in the team is to undertake the following: Question 1 Justify why you believe that an economic evaluation is needed, including any additional information you might need to support your argument. Question 2 Form a well-defined study question to help guide your economic evaluation? Question 3 What type of economic evaluation do you think will be the most appropriate for answering your study question? Justify your choice. Question 4 Describe the costs that you will collect under the following categories: Direct health care Direct non-health care Indirect Intangible Question 5 Outline the sources that you would use for collecting the cost information for your economic evaluation. Question 6: Explain how you will value each of your resource inputs in your economic evaluation.