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  Quiz for Health Economics Module 4

Module 4 was intended to provide an introductory guide to quality appraisal of published health economic evaluation studies. Upon successful completion of this quiz you may request a Certificate of Success by clicking on the button located at the bottom of the answer page.


1. The market value of a resource may not be an adequate reflection of opportunity cost. An example is voluntary care - the market price is zero but there is an opportunity cost in terms of the alternative ways in which the carer could have utilized the time. A value would have to be imputed, perhaps based on the salary of a paid caregiver. This concept is called _________?

A. cost efficiency
B. un-thinking acceptance of market values
C. opportunity cost
D. market price


2. There are three basic types of economic evaluation methodology: (1) cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA); (2) ________; and (3) cost-benefit analysis (CBA) . What is the missing type? Select the correct answer from from the list below.

A. insurance benefits analysis
B. technical efficiency analyses
C. clinical efficiency analysis
D. allocative efficiency analysis
E. cost-utility analysis (CUA)


3. Economic evaluations are ______ which attempt to capture and summarize reality. (Fill in the blank with one of items from the list below).

A. organisms
B. facts
C. graphics
D. models


4. Other related services costs relate to resources associated with community, ambulance and voluntary services, As with health care resources they may be categorized as staffing, ______, overheads, and capital.

A. research
B. consumables
C. buildings
D. heating


5. Cost benefit analysis is used to measure allocative efficiency. It can be measured either within the ________ or across other sectors of the economy.

A. technical sector
B. health care sector
C. insurance sector
D. socioeconomic sector
E. information sector


6. Two patients have different treatments for the same condition. In Year 1 person A has surgery costing $3000. Patient B begins drug treatment with drugs costing $1000. Over three years, and despite an inflation rate of 5%, by adjusting costs for the rate of inflation the two treatments are shown to be _________ in terms of resources used.

A. much less efficient
B. not as efficient
C. more efficient
D. equally efficient
E. Much more efficient


7. The four main areas of resource use which may require specific identification and measurement of costs are: health care resources; other related services; clients and their families; and ______ . (Fill in the missing area).

A. time lost from usual activity
B. randomized controlled trials
C. clinical trials
D. exercise


8. Examples of health care resources include (but are not limited to) staffing, consumables such as supplies and equipment, overheads such as heating, lighting, cleaning, laundry services etc., and capital such as land, buildings and major items of equipment. True | False?

True
False


9. Cost-utility analysis relates ____ to a multidemensional measure of effectiveness which takes into account the valuation of benefits; i.e., a measure of utility.

A. costs
B. allocative efficiency
C. technical efficiency
D. economic data
E. peer review


10. Double-counting - counting the same cost twice - is a potential hazard in economic evaluation. True | False?

True
False

 

Last updated: 21 May 2004
First published: 05 December 2003
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