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Thursday, September 9, 2010

Assessing Cost-Effectiveness in Prevention


ACE Prevention is a large, 5-year study that was funded by the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) and jointly led by professor Theo Vos of the Centre for Burden of Disease and Cost-Effectiveness at the University of Queensland and professor Rob Carter of the Deakin Health Economics Unit at Deakin University.

The overall aim of this project was to provide a comprehensive analysis of the comparative cost-effectiveness of preventive intervention options addressing the non-communicable disease burden in Australia, with a specific focus on Indigenous Australians.

ACE Prevention is the most comprehensive evaluation of health prevention measures ever conducted world-wide, involving input from 130 top health experts. The research team assessed 123 illness prevention measures to identify those which will prevent the most illness and premature deaths and those that are best value for money. For comparison purposes 27 treatment interventions were included.


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