Subject(s): Medical care in Cost effectiveness -- Medical care in Evaluation in Methodology. -- Research in Methodology. -- Introduction to healthcare evaluation : CEA as CBA, cost benefit analysis -- CM and CBA : Cost minimization and definition of cost, types of costs and their measurement, CM and cost standardization, external costs and independent markets, social cost of taxation, economic theory and MCF -- CEA and CBA : Fundamentals of cost effectiveness analysis, further issues of cost effectiveness analysis -- CUA and CBA : Fundamentals of cost-utility analysis, measuring utilities in cost utility analysis, cost utility analysis and equity, DALYs, QALYs, person trade off, capability approach -- CBA : Cost benefit analysis and human capital approach, relation between WTP and human capital, cost benefit analysis and willingness to pay, WTP and consumer sovereignty, cost benefit analysis and equity -- Methods for measuring the benefits of HIV/AIDS interventions