Health Economics is a key tool for regional government in order to take decisions about prioritizing and rationalizing health expenditures in accordance with the efficacy and equity standards. Health economics provides tools for different actions:

• Compare: Through an economic analysis we can obtain the real picture of the health sector and the target scenario we have to achieve.
• Prove: Health economics provides a reference framework in decision making
• Make profitable: Analyze the profitability of different health interventions
• Control: Provide of a proper methodology to promote concrete interventions according to the public interest