A method of comparing the cost of a program with its expected benefits in dollars (or other currency). The benefit-to-cost ratio is a measure of total return expected per unit of money spent. This analysis generally excludes consideration of factors that are not measured ultimately in economic terms. In contrast a cost effectiveness in general compares cost with qualitative outcomes.
    

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Identifying health technologies that work : searching for evidence.

Rethink HIV : smarter ways to invest in ending HIV in Sub-Saharan Africa / edited by Bjørn Lomborg.

Scientific basis of health services / edited by Michael Peckham, Richard Smith.

Priorities in health / editors, Dean T. Jamison [and others].

Economic evaluation in clinical trials / Henry A. Glick [and others].

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Identifying health technologies that work : searching for evidence.

Rethink HIV : smarter ways to invest in ending HIV in Sub-Saharan Africa / edited by Bjørn Lomborg.

Scientific basis of health services / edited by Michael Peckham, Richard Smith.

Priorities in health / editors, Dean T. Jamison [and others].

Economic evaluation in clinical trials / Henry A. Glick [and others].