Costs indirect
These relate to the losses to society incurred as a result of participating in the programme, such as the impact on production, domestic responsibilities, and social and leisure activities.
Glossary
Costs Intangible
These relate to issues such as anxieties and impact on quality of life resulting from participation in the programme. These are generally difficult to measure and value and are often not included in the construction of the cost profile of an economic evaluation.
Demand
The need, ability, and willingness to pay for a commodity.
Developmental Evaluation
“supports innovation development to guide adaptation to emergent and dynamic realities in complex environments”
Michael Quinn Patton – http://betterevaluation.org/plan/approach/developmental_evaluation
Discounting
The mathematical procedure for adjusting future costs and outcomes of health‐care interventions to “present value”; this adjusts for differences in the timing of cost (expenditure) compared to health benefits (outcomes).
Economic evaluation (economic appraisal)
The comparison of alternative courses of action in terms of their costs and consequences, with a view to making a choice.
Magenta Book (2011) – http://gov.uk/government/publications/the-magenta-book
Effectiveness
The extent to which programmes achieve their objectives, in real-life settings.
Efficacy
The effect of an intervention under ideal conditions, with participants fully complying with the programme.
Efficiency
Maximising the benefit to any resource expenditure (funds, expertise, time, etc), or minimising the cost of any achieved benefit.
Evaluability
“The extent to which an activity or a programme can be evaluated in a reliable and credible fashion”
WHO (2013) Evaluation Practice Handbook
apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/10665/96311/1/9789241548687_eng.pdf
Evaluability Assessment
“Early review of a proposed activity in order to ascertain whether its objectives are adequately defined and its results verifiable”
WHO (2013) Evaluation Practice Handbook
apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/10665/96311/1/9789241548687_eng.pdf
Evaluation
“measure/judge current service without reference to a standard, “What standard does this service achieve?”
http://www.hra.nhs.uk/documents/2013/09/defining-research.pdf
“A study in which research procedures are used in a systematic way to judge the quality or value of a service or intervention, providing evidence that can be used to improve it”
West of England Evaluation Strategy Group, 2013