An important consideration when establishing priorities in health care is the likely effects that alternative allocations of resources will have on health-related quality of life (HRQoL). This paper reports on the analysis of data from a study which elicited health state valuations (using the...

A review of relevant literature within health economics, psychology and moral philosophy suggests that people want resource allocation decisions in health to be informed by considerations of equity as well as efficiency. A number of empirical studies demonstrate that people are willing to...

A central task in the field of health status measurement involves eliciting valuations for health states. When these valuations are then used in estimating patient benefit as part of a cost-utility analysis, a key issue is how the duration of a health state affects its value. Previous studies...