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Where’s Next for Public Health ROI Research?

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The return on investment (ROI) research in public health is evolving as a useful ingredient to the decision-making process, but a number of challenges exist currently. This chapter surveys these challenges. The barriers to use ROI tools are around commissioning contexts, local needs, target population and types of users. Like any other model, ROI models are not free from limitations. Methodological research for the future could look at the ways in which more accurate data around effects (health, quality of life and wider) of behaviour change could be collected. Also, more accurate modelling techniques such as the one allowing individual user-level variation may be required. Transferring a well-established ROI model to other jurisdictions or other areas of public health may save research resources.

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  1. Health Economics Research Group (HERG), Division of Health Sciences, Brunel University London, Uxbridge, UK

    Subhash Pokhrel

  2. Centre for Guidelines, National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, London, UK

    Lesley Owen

  3. Health Economics Research Group (HERG), Brunel University London, Uxbridge, UK

    Kathryn Coyle

  4. School of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada

    Doug Coyle

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Pokhrel, S., Owen, L., Coyle, K., Coyle, D. (2017). Where’s Next for Public Health ROI Research?. In: ROI in Public Health Policy. Palgrave Pivot, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-68897-8_9

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