Choose a country and identify a public health issue that you would like to address. Develop and clearly present a proposal for a health economic evaluation protocol that you would like to conduct....

Choose a country and identify a public health issue that you would like to address. Develop and

clearly present a proposal for a health economic evaluation protocol that you would like to

conduct.  Your protocol should address all the 12 points listed below. Maximum words limit for

each question in this task is 150 words and the total words count for this task is a minimum of

1500 words. Please provide references when necessary with a maximum of 10 references for the

whole proposal.
1. Background: Describe the public health problem you would like to address (4 marks) 2. State the objectives of your intervention (2 marks) 3. Describe the population and timeframe (2 marks) 4. Clearly state the economic question (2 marks) 5. State which perspective you will adopt and why (4 marks) 6. What type of economic evaluation will you undertake (2 marks) 7. Present a clear description of your intervention(s) and comparator(s) (4 marks) 8. Describe how you will identify measure and value resources use (15 marks) 9. Describe how you will identify measure and value health benefits (15 marks) 10.  Describe how you will summarize and present your results (5 marks) 11. Discuss if you will perform any discounting and provide a sensitivity analysis plan (4 marks) 12. Discuss any potential challenges you might face in your evaluation (6 marks) The remaining 5 marks will be assigned for the general quality of the proposal including - strength of arguments - clarity of text - lay out - referencing

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Task II: Critical appraisal (30%) Using the Drummond checklist for assessing economic evaluation, critically appraise the

economic evaluation presented in the paper provided. Prepare a critical appraisal report

addressing all the 10 questions of the