Evaluación económica de programas y servicios de salud

the gap between what medicine can do and what it is economically feasible to do makes more relevant the economic evaluation of health care programmes as a tool that makes explicit what otherwise would be implicit and informs decision makers about the health impact and resource use of different health programmes, which may offer society a better understanding of political process and resource allocation. this article shows the steps in an economic evaluation in health. also, some methodological issues are discussed.