This paper presents an application of a new methodological framework for undertaking
distributional cost‐effectiveness analysis to combine the objectives of maximising health and
minimising unfair variation in health when evaluating population health interventions. The
National Health Service bowel cancer screening programme introduced in 2006 is expected
to improve population health on average and to worsen population health inequalities
associated with deprivation and ethnicity–a classic case of 'intervention‐generated …

This paper presents a case study application of a new methodological framework for
undertaking distributional cost-effectiveness analysis (DCEA) to combine the objectives of
maximising health and minimising unfair variation in health when evaluating population
health interventions. The NHS Bowel Cancer Screening Programme (BCSP) introduced in
2006 is expected to improve population health on average but also to worsen population
health inequalities associated with deprivation and ethnicity–a classic case of “intervention …