How do we evaluate the economic value of interventions?

By working closely with health economists from the NIHR Applied Research Collaboration: Yorkshire and Humber team (ARC-YH), we help funders work out how much interventions cost, as well as whether interventions bring worthwhile health and wellbeing benefits.

We do this by understanding what is needed to deliver the interventions, how they might reduce the care that people need (for example, an intervention might reduce the number of times children see their GP), and whether people are likely to see a long-term change in their health and wellbeing.

Whenever the interventions we evaluate have an enhanced evaluation (i.e. a formal assessment of if the intervention has a benefit to children and families’ health outcomes), we also run an economic evaluation. You can find out more about these specific evaluations by clicking on a theme that interests you above.

If you are interested in learning more about economic evaluation, we have also developed an online toolkit to guide you through some of the key ideas – just click on the button below.