Partially wrong? Partial equilibrium and the economic analysis of public health emergencies of international concern
指出传统卫生经济分析在评估国际关注的突发公共卫生事件干预措施时存在局限，因为其局部均衡假设会被疫情打破，并提出考虑行为变化和容量问题的新方法。
We argue that traditional health economic analysis is ill-equipped to estimate the cost effectiveness and cost benefit of interventions that aim at controlling and/or preventing public health emergencies of international concern (such as pandemic influenza or severe acute respiratory syndrome). The implicit assumption of partial equilibrium within both the health sector itself and--if a wider perspective is adopted--the economy as a whole would be violated by such emergencies. We propose an alternative, with the specific aim of accounting for the behavioural changes and capacity problems that are expected to occur when such an outbreak strikes.