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Bridging the gap: health equality and the deficit framing of health

Morton, Alec - In: Health Economics 19 (2010) 12, pp. 1497-1501

The analyst tasked with measuring population health, with appraising healthcare investments, or allocating healthcare resources, may frame their task in one of two possible ways: either as being concerned with health assets (e.g. health expectancy or stock of QALYs), or with health deficits (a...

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Toward a more universal approach in health valuation

Craig, Benjamin M.; Busschbach, Jan J. V. - In: Health Economics 20 (2011) 7, pp. 864-875

health on a quality-adjusted life year (QALY) scale. The scenarios typically involve trade‐offs in time (time trade‐off (TTO …)), risk (standard gamble (SG)), or number of persons affected (person trade‐off (PTO)). This paper revisits the QALY …. The proposed approach avoids the use of ratio statistics in QALY estimation and the common convention of arbitrarily …

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