Broadening Economic Evaluation to Inform and Develop Equitable Preventive and Promotive Health Policy
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Global Health".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 April 2026 | Viewed by 2
Special Issue Editors
2. Department of Economics, Lund University, 22363 Lund, Sweden
Interests: health economics; health econometrics; inequalities in health; economics of health behaviour; international health expenditure; health system and organization
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Dear Colleagues,
Some of the most important and high-pay-off health-related interventions may be achieved outside of clinical medicine. Even within medicine, there is an increasing focus on preventative interventions. The economic evaluation of such interventions presents new methodological challenges. There is a growing recognition of the need to consider wider impacts beyond health, including the distributional impacts of interventions.
For this Special Issue, we invite contributions that address theoretical, methodological, or applied aspects of economic evaluation in public health promotion and preventive activities. We particularly welcome studies that explore how to operationalize economic evaluations with a broader perspective and a wider social welfare focus within real-world policy settings. We are interested in measuring the social welfare impact of interventions, choosing relevant outcome measures, and strengthening institutional capacity for social welfare-informed decision-making. We are also interested in innovative uses of data, cross-country comparisons, and interdisciplinary approaches that connect economic evaluation with ethical, political, or behavioural insights.
By bringing together work at the intersection of health economics, public health, and policy, this Special Issue will provide practical guidance and conceptual clarity in evaluating the wider social welfare impacts of public health promotion and preventive activities.
Prof. Dr. Ulf Gerdtham
Dr. Gawain A. Heckley
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Distributional Cost-Effectiveness Analysis (DCEA)
- health equity
- public health policy
- prevention
- health promotion
- economic evaluation
- equity-informed decision-making
- social welfare analysis
- equity
- health inequalities
- resource allocation
- efficiency and equity trade-offs
- ethics in health economics
- fairness in health care
- behavioural economics
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