The person trade-off (PTO) technique has been suggested as a means of eliciting social preferences for health care, both the valuation of health care interventions and, more recently, to inform on the weights that society may attach to other decision-making criteria (e.g. the severity of a...

Much of the literature on distributive preferences covers specific considerations in isolation, and recent reviews have suggested that research is required to inform on the relative importance of various key considerations. Responding to this research recommendation, we explore the distributive...

Health state valuations, elicited by methods such as the standard gamble and the time trade-off, give an indication of the value that an individual attaches to particular health states. As measures of individual values, it has been argued that such valuations serve as poor proxies for social...