This paper proposes a method to evaluate health losses or gains by looking at the impact on well-being of a change in … health status. The paper presents estimates of the equivalent income change that would be necessary to change general … satisfaction with life to the same extent as a change in health satisfaction would do. In other words, we estimate the income …

Many recent writings in health policy have proposed that health be valued directly and in monetary terms using the new … may be for the evaluation process. To shed light on this issue, monetary values for a number of health problems are … consistency of health impacts within each well-being measure, hugely different monetary valuations are obtained for the same …

an integrated developmental approach to child and adult health that considers the costs and benefits of interventions … over the life cycle. We suggest policies to promote child health which are currently outside the boundaries of conventional …

regarding the relationship between the latent variable ?health? and its evaluation into observable QALY?s. Second, we allow the …In this paper we evaluate the QALY losses, which are linked to the prevalence of specific chronic illnesses and … impediments. The analysis is based on the individual self-rating health satisfaction question asked in the British Household Panel …

?more is better,? based on revealed preference theory, is wrong. An increase in income, and thus in the goods at one … better theory of well-being builds on the evidence that adaptation and social comparison affect utility more in pecuniary … goals, such as family life and health, and reduces well-being. There is need to devise policies that will yield better …