Developed out of the Advanced Methods of Cost-Effectiveness Analysis course taught at the University of Oxford, and the four main sections mirror the four principal components of the course: Outcomes, Costs, Modelling using decision trees and Markov models, and Presenting cost-effectiveness results. This book includes illustrative material, case histories and worked examples to encourage the reader to apply the methods discussed, with supporting material provided online.

The highly successful textbook Methods for the Economic Evaluation of Health Care is now available in its third edition. Over the years it has become the standard textbook in the field world-wide. It mirrors the huge expansion of the field of economic evaluation in health care.