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KMID : 0858820110280020041
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Journal of Korean Society for Health Education and Promotion
2011 Volume.28 No. 2 p.41 ~ p.50
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The Cost Effectiveness Analysis of Health Promotion Policy : WHO-CHOICE Programme
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Oh In-Hwan
Yoon Seok-Jun
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Abstract
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Objectives: The objective of this study is to describe the WHO-CHOICE(World Health Organization- CHOosing Interventions that are Cost-Effective) programme, and to consider the application of WHO-CHOICE programme in Korea, especially on the health promotion policy.
Methods: Literature review was conducted on the contents of WHO-CHOICE programme in the previous studies, guidebook, and software. We also contacted WHO-CHOICE team at WHO to identify the contents not clearly presented in the documents.
Results: The WHO-CHOICE programme is a standardized tool for analyzing and comparing the cost effectiveness of health promotion policies. It is composed of PopMod to measure the health effect of intervention and of CostIt to measure the cost. The cost of tobacco control policy in Korea was analyzed with the cooperation of WHO-CHOICE team preliminary, and the results were different with the results of tobacco control policy on western pacific region of WHO.
Conclusions: The cost effectiveness study based on WHO-CHOICE programme could help decide a priority of health promotion policy for settings with limited resources. For the improvement of health, the future work on WHO-CHOICE programme need to be considered.
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KEYWORD
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Cost-effectiveness analysis, Disability adjusted life years, Burden of disease, WHO-CHOICE
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