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The economics of prenatal screening

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  • Joe Callan

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Ethical issues must take first place in the evaluation of a prenatal screening programme. The economic issues are less weighty but will be important in the decision as to whether a particular programme is introduced. This paper presents a critique of the published economic studies of screening and seeks to establish the proper place for economic arguments, in an overall appraisal. It criticises the calculation of a summary “ecomomie benefit” and proposes other methods for the presentation of economic information. An appendix gives separate critical summaries of twelve published studies.

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  • Joe Callan, 1988. "The economics of prenatal screening," Working Papers 042chedp, Centre for Health Economics, University of York.
    • Handle: RePEc:chy:respap:42chedp
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