%0 Journal Article %T Evaluaci¨®n econ¨®mica de programas y servicios de salud %A Mej¨ªa Mej¨ªa %A Aurelio %J Revista Gerencia y Pol¨ªticas de Salud %D 2008 %I Pontificia Universidad Javeriana %X 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. %K cost effectiveness %K methodology %K health care rationing %K health economics %K health economics %K health care %K health planning. %U http://www.scielo.org.co/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S1657-70272008000200006&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en