Skip Navigation

This Article
Right arrow Full Text Freely available
Right arrow FREE Full Text (PDF) Freely available
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Services
Right arrow Email this article to a friend
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Similar articles in ISI Web of Science
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Add to My Personal Archive
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrowRequest Permissions
Right arrow Disclaimer
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by Hale, J.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
PubMed
Right arrow Articles by Hale, J.
Social Bookmarking
Add to CiteULike   Add to Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us  
What's this?

Health Promotion International, Vol. 15, No. 4, 341-348, December 2000
© Oxford University Press 2000

What contribution can health economics make to health promotion?

Janine Hale

University of Glamorgan Business School, on behalf of the UK Health Promotion and Health Economics Forum, Treforest, Mid Glamorgan CF37 1DL, UK

Address for correspondence: Janine Hale University of Glamorgan Business School Treforest Mid Glamorgan CF37 1DL UK

SUMMARY

Health promotion is an area that has been relatively neglected by health economists. There are a variety of reasons for this, including lack of demand by health promotion specialists, misunderstanding of what health economics has to offer the discipline of health promotion, misunderstanding of what health promotion is trying to do on the part of health economists, and perceived difficulties in applying standard economic appraisal techniques to health promotion programmes. Health Promotion Wales was the first UK Health Promotion Agency to employ a health economist. In February 1998, at a meeting of the research departments of the four territorial agencies at the time (Health Promotion Wales, Health Education Authority, England, Health Promotion Authority for Northern Ireland and the Health Education Board for Scotland), it was decided that a position paper on health economics and health promotion would be useful. A meeting involving seven health economists from six universities and six health promotion researchers representing the then four UK agencies was held to inform this paper. Three broad areas were discussed illustrating the potential role for health economics in health promotion; these were economic evaluation, the role of economics in explaining and predicting individual behaviour, and economic policy and health promotion policy. This paper summarizes the main discussion points from the meeting.

Key words: health economics; economic evaluation; individual behaviour


Add to CiteULike CiteULike   Add to Connotea Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us Del.icio.us    What's this?


This article has been cited by other articles:


Home page
 Health Educ ResHome page
S. M. C. Vijgen, P. H. M. van Baal, R. T. Hoogenveen, G. A. de Wit, and T. L. Feenstra
Cost-effectiveness analyses of health promotion programs: a case study of smoking prevention and cessation among Dutch students
Health Educ. Res., April 1, 2008; 23(2): 310 - 318.
[Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]


Disclaimer:
Please note that abstracts for content published before 1996 were created through digital scanning and may therefore not exactly replicate the text of the original print issues. All efforts have been made to ensure accuracy, but the Publisher will not be held responsible for any remaining inaccuracies. If you require any further clarification, please contact our Customer Services Department.