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After estimating the benefits, the costs also have to be estimated. In Chapters 3 and 4 dealing with the definitions of costs and benefits, we used the term costs to reflect the resource consequences of a treatment. The resource consequences were defined as the effect on the consumption of goods and services of a health care programme and the effect on the consumption of leisure. The resource consequences were also divided into those that are paid by the recipients of a health care programme and those that are paid by other people in society. The costs that are carried by other people were defined as the external costs of a programme.
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Johannesson, M. (1996). The Estimation of Costs. In: Theory and Methods of Economic Evaluation of Health Care. Developments in Health Economics and Public Policy, vol 4. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-6822-0_7
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