Module Components

• Overview
• Learning Activity

Topics

• Introduction to Economic Outcomes
• Approaches to Economic Analysis
• LOGIC MODEL: OUTPUTS = Direct Products

NURS 834 - Translating Evidence to Practice

Module 5: Implementing Change and Design for Evaluation

Introduction to Economic Outcomes

Escalating healthcare spending in the United States central to the dialog about health care quality. As healthcare costs escalate, we are expected to continually estimate and evaluate the costs of implementing our recommendations in practice. Economic outcomes are important in assessing the value of healthcare.

Estimating the economic impact of knowledge translation activities is an important factor in considering the feasibility of the knowledge translation.

Jeanne Pinder asks “What if all healthcare costs were transparent?” in this short TED talk.
https://www.ted.com/talks/jeanne_pinder_what_if_all_us_health_care_costs_were_transparent?language=en

Health inequities

In the economic literature, the term health inequities is primarily applied to unjust or unfair access to health services.  A health delivery system is horizontally equitable if all people with equal need for health care are equally likely to obtain the same type of health care.