Deck 8: Monitoring Implementation Through Budgets and Information Systems

Question 1

The funders for an HIV awareness program that you have been implementing have requested that you compare the cost per participant of the program to the cost per participant of another HIV awareness program. Which type of economic evaluation are they requesting?

A) Cost description
B) Cost analysis
C) Cost comparison
D) Cost-effectiveness

Answer 1

C

Question 2

As part of its annual evaluation, a violence prevention organization reported that a new violence prevention program cost $1,000 less per estimated averted shooting than another program that the organization ran. What type of economic evaluation is this?

A) Cost description
B) Cost analysis
C) Cost comparison
D) Cost-effectiveness

Answer 2

D

Question 3

The cardiology unit wanted to determine which was more economically preferable to patients: having high cholesterol or having chronic high blood pressure. Which of the following economic evaluations would be most useful for this type of analysis?

A) Cost description
B) Cost analysis
C) Cost comparison
D) Cost-utility

Answer 3

D

Question 4

The intent of a(n) ______________ analysis is to determine which of two different programs will have the greater benefit to the program's intended population, given each program's costs.

Question 5

The three accounting perspectives are ______________, program, and societal.

Question 6

When deciding how to monetize program effects, using the ______________ helps identify potential outcomes and impacts to be monetized.

Question 7

A cancer center wants to determine the cost-effectiveness ratio of treating patients with colon cancer detected early by routine colonoscopy screening versus colon cancer detected at a later stage through other nonroutine diagnostic tests. The center estimated that the total cost of treating colon cancer detected by the routine screening procedure was $50,000 and the average longevity of these patients after treatment was 18 years. The total cost of treating colon cancer detected by other tests was $30,000 and the average longevity of these patients was 3 years. Provide the treatment cost-effectiveness ratio of each treatment.

Question 8

Briefly explain the meaning of a benefit-cost ratio of -6.

Question 9

Similar to any research study and program evaluation, what is the first step of an economic evaluation?

Question 10

What is term of the following definition
-The theoretical point of view taken, which guides the decisions as to what factors will be included as costs and as outcomes

Question 11

What is term of the following definition
-Purchases that cannot be made because of having spent the money on something else

Question 12

What is term of the following definition
-The process of converting future health benefits and future dollars to the present values

Question 13

What is term of the following definition
-The rate at which current dollars will have a lower value in the future

Question 14

What is term of the following definition
-The decreasing value of capital equipment into the future

Question 15

What is term of the following definition
-The systematic alteration of any parameter of the economic analysis for the purpose of determining the point at which the conclusions would become substantively different

Question 16

What is term of the following definition
-A generic term used to encompass expenses related to the program