Farmakoekonomika dla studentów i absolwentów akademii medycznych (Pharmacoeconomics for students and graduates of Medical Universities), by Ewa Orlewska MD, PhD and Professor Elżbieta Nowakowska is the comprehensive presentation of all key issues in the methodology of measurement and valuation of costs and outcomes of health care programs. The topics covered in the textbook are: definitions of costs and outcomes in economic evaluation, the methodological features of the basic forms of pharmacoeconomic analyses, decision rules in cost-effectiveness analysis, theory and practice of measuring preferences with particular emphasis on its use in economic evaluation, useful guidance on the construction and evaluation of decision analytic models, guidelines for conducting pharmacoeconomic evealuations, cost calculation in economic evaluation of health care programmes and conducting financial analysis (Budget Impact Analysis). It is designed primarily for students and graduates of Medical Universities, but may serve as a reference tool for to anyone involved in undertaking of economic evaluation of health care programs or interpreting their results in medical decision making.