Programme of methodological and applied research on economic aspects of perinatal and paediatric health care

改善孕妇、母亲和儿童的健康和更广泛福祉的战略必须以强有力的证据为基础。来自多个学科的科学调查路线在不同程度上支持了围产期和儿科保健中的循证知情政策和实践。同样，卫生经济学证据也为联合王国孕妇、母亲和儿童的健康和保健的生产、分配和评价做出了重要和相关的贡献。然而，作为一门相对较新的学科，卫生经济理论和方法的几个领域仍有重要的发展和改进。此外，在围产期和儿科保健的许多领域，卫生经济技术可以有效地促进稀缺资源的有效和公平分配。我提议就围产期和儿科保健的经济方面开展一项方法和应用研究方案，其中包括：衡量围产期和儿科方面基于偏好的结果;评价围产期和儿科方面的健康收益;围产期和儿科方面的成本计量和评价;早产预防和治疗战略的成本效益。

Strategies to improve the health and broader well-being of pregnant women, mothers and children should necessarily be underpinned by a strong evidence base. Scientific lines of enquiry from a number of disciplines have, to varying degrees, supported evidence-informed policy and practice in perinatal and paediatric health care. Health economics evidence has similarly made an important and relevant contribution to decisions concerning the production, distribution and evaluation of health and health care for pregnant women, mothers and children in the UK. As a relatively new discipline, however, there remain important developments and refinements to be made in several areas of health economic theory and methodology. Moreover, there remain a large number of areas of perinatal and paediatric health care where health economic techniques could usefully contribute to an efficient and equitable allocation of scarce resources. I propose to conduct a programme of methodological and applied research on economic aspects of perinatal and paediatric health care that encompasses: measurement of preference-based outcomes in the perinatal and paediatric contexts; valuation of health gains in the perinatal and paediatric contexts; cost measurement and valuation in the perinatal and paediatric contexts; and the cost-effectiveness of prevention and treatment strategies for preterm birth.