Economic Evaluation of Health Problems in Adolescents: An Essay

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HSH 719 ECONOMIC EVALUATION 1: ASSESSMENT 2 –
ESSAY

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Table of contents
1.0 Introduction..........................................................................................................................3
2.0 Question 1............................................................................................................................3
3.0 Question 2............................................................................................................................3
4.0 Question 3............................................................................................................................4
5.0 Question 4............................................................................................................................4
6.0 Question 5............................................................................................................................5
7.0 Question 6............................................................................................................................6
8.0 Question 7............................................................................................................................6
9.0 Conclusion............................................................................................................................7
Reference....................................................................................................................................8

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1.0 Introduction
Health is an important part of the economic progress of any country that needs to be taken
care of for more sustainable growth. Healthy labours of the economy also intrigue the
economy to perform well in the long run. The health department of the country has all the
responsibilities regarding the identification of the problem in the health sector of the
economy. Health sector is important due to the fact that healthiness of the human resources of
the economy also contributes to the productivity as well. This productivity in turn allows the
economy to produce more in a given cost thereby leading to an economic growth. The
government of all the countries have understood the importance of the health sector in the
economy and hence they carry out regular studies and executive strategies in order to take
care of the sector. The aim of this paper is to answer few of the questions related to the health
of the adolescences, sleeping pattern of whose disturbs their performance.
2.0 Question 1
Economic evaluation is the first stage towards the planning for the development. The
evaluation provides the policymaker a more robust insight into the problem of the economy
in terms of the health of the human resources. Drummond et al. (2015) commented that there
are some of the salient features of economic evaluation that are important for problem
identification and solution. These involve the cost benefit analysis. Government is
responsible for maintaining and managing high amount of public money and needs to justify
each of the decision that it incurs. In this case the economic evaluation allows the policy
maker to understand the severity of the problem and to decide for the allocation of funds for
the mitigation of the solution. Another importance of the economic evaluation is that it
comes with statistical analyses of the problem as well. That means the policy maker have the
chance to review the problem and check whether the interventions are in line with the
objective of the health department as well (Ricci et al. 2017). The use of previous data and
decision based on this also increases the accuracy of the response of the health department
leading to an effective execution.
3.0 Question 2
In order to analyse the situation the health outcome needs to be measured and reviewed
regarding the impacts of the health outcome (Pacula, 2017). These questions are important