The Economics of Public Health: Evaluating Public Health Interventions

By Heather Brown

In April 2018, exactly two years since I agreed to start the exciting project of writing my own book, The Economics of Public Health: Evaluating Public Health Interventions was published by Palgrave Macmillan.

The inspiration for the book stemmed from teaching the health economics module on the Masters of Public Health and chats with students after the module. Many of the people I spoke to worked in local authorities and were interested in undertaking policy evaluation using economic tools but did not have the skills to do it themselves. After looking at what existing textbooks had to offer in terms of guidance, there did not seem to be any that really covered econometric evaluation techniques for public health for the non-econometrician.

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