This is a real-world medical entrance exam question, please give the true answer based on the question and selection. Topic name: Health programmes in India, Subject name: Social & Preventive Medicine
[{'content': 'Comparing economic benefits of a program with the cost of that program, it is called - \nSelect and explain. \nA. Cost-accounting analysis, B. Input-output analysis, C. Cost-effective analysis, D. Cost-benefit analysis', 'role': 'user'}, {'content': 'Answer: D \nExplanation: parks textbook of preventive and social medicine 23rd edition. *management technique in which economic benefits of any programme are compared with the cost of that programme . *benefits are expressed in monetary erms to determine wheather a given programme is economically sound and to select the best out of several alternate programme and is called cost benefit analysis *if benefits are expressed in terms of result acheived they are called cost effective analysis .', 'role': 'assistant'}]