Cost-effectiveness of mental health interventions during and after pregnancy: A systematic review.

Background: Mental health problems during and after pregnancy such as depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), or addiction are common and can have lifelong implications for both parents and offspring. This review investigates the cost-effectiveness of interventions tackling these problems, assesses the methodological quality of included studies, and indicates suggestions for further research.

Methods: Thirteen databases were searched for economic evaluations of interventions related to antenatal, perinatal, and postnatal mental health conditions, published between 2000 and September 2021, in high-income countries.

Economic evaluation of Medically Assisted Reproduction: An educational overview of methods and applications for healthcare professionals.

Economic evaluations of the value-for-money of Medically Assisted Reproduction (MAR) interventions are increasingly important due to growing pressure on healthcare budgets. Although such evaluations are commonplace in the published literature, the number/methodological complexity of different evaluations available, and the challenges specific to MAR interventions, can complicate the interpretation of such analyses for fertility treatments. This article aims to serve as an educational resource and provide context on the design/interpretation of economic analyses for MAR interventions.

To be or not to be: Future lives in economic evaluation.

Sometimes healthcare will affect the health of people living in the future, or their chance of coming into existence. Should such outcomes be valued in health-economic evaluation? Guidelines implicitly recommend their inclusion but this rule has counterintuitive implications and is not consistently applied in practice. We suggest making a distinction between "necessary" and "potential" future lives in Health Technology Assessment.

Future Offspring Costs in Economic Evaluation.

Economic evaluation guidelines increasingly prescribe inclusion of all future costs. We point at an important dimension of future costs that is systematically neglected. Healthcare can affect future offspring, either through affecting the patient's fertility or through determining future offspring's health.