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
Comparing economic benefits of a program with the cost of that program, it is called - 
Select and explain. 
A. Cost-accounting analysis, B. Input-output analysis, C. Cost-effective analysis, D. Cost-benefit analysis
D: Cost-benefit analysis
Answer: D: Cost-benefit analysis 
Explanation: 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 .