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- AN ALTERNATIVE THEORY OF HEALTH CARE DECISION MAKING

Blanco, Carmen Herrero - Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Económicas (IVIE) - 1998

Starting from a finite or countable set of states of health, and assuming the existence of an objective transitive preference relation on that set, we propose a way of performing interpersonal comparisons of states of health among individuals of different type. Then, a way of evaluating health...

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INDIVIDUAL EVIDENCE OF INDEPENDENCE IN HEALTH PROFILES EVALUATION

Blanco, Carmen Herrero - Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Económicas (IVIE) - 2001

We analyze empirically the fulfillment of the property of Mutual Independence, traditionally assumed in the literature on health profiles evaluation. Mutual Independence turns out to be equivalent to the simultaneous fulfillment of two weaker properties: Independence of the Past with regard to...

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The Integration of Claims to Health-Care: a Programming Approach

Anand, Paul - Department of Economics, Open University - 2002

The paper contributes to the use of social choice and welfare theory in health economics by developing and applying the integration of claims framework to health-care rationing. Related to Sens critique of neo-classical welfare economics, the integration of claims framework recognises three...

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Economic Uncertainties in Valuing Reductions in Children's Environmental Health Risks

Krupnick, Alan; Hoffmann, Sandra; Adamowicz, Wictor - 2005

The recognition that environmental hazards can affect children differently and more severely than adults has provoked growing concern in industrialized nations about the impact of environmental pollution on children’s health. In this paper, commissioned by the OECD, we are charged with...

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Willingness to pay and QALYs: What can we learn about valuing foodborne risk?

Andersson, Henrik; Hammitt, James; Sundström, Kristian - Laboratoire d'Économie des Ressources Naturelles … - 2011

WTP per QALY. We find that WTP is increasing with but not proportional to the change in QALYs. Our monetary estimates are …

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How You Ask Is What You Get: Willingness-to-Pay for a QALY in Germany

Ahlert, Marlies; Breyer, Friedrich; Schwettmann, Lars - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2014

gain of one quality-adjusted life year (QALY). While one version of the survey exactly copied the questionnaire used in the …

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New findings from the TTO for income approach to elicit willingness to pay for a QALY

Attema, Arthur; Krol, Marieke; van Exel, Job; Brouwer, … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

Willingness to pay (WTP) elicitations suffer from various methodological problems. This paper tests a recently proposed alternative approach to value WTP for health, making use of trade-offs between income and lifetime or quality of life. We apply three experimental elicitation procedures and...

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Transforming EQ-5D utilities for use in cost–value analysis of health programs

Nord, Erik; Johansen, Rune - In: The European Journal of Health Economics 16 (2015) 3, pp. 313-328

In a number of jurisdictions there is increasing interest in incorporating concerns for fairness in models for economic evaluation of health interventions. Cost–value analysis is a name for evaluations with such a broader aim. The most widely held concern for fairness is a concern for the...

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Reconciling cost-effectiveness with the rule of rescue: the institutional division of moral labour

Orr, Shepley; Wolff, Jonathan - In: Theory and Decision 78 (2015) 4, pp. 525-538

Cost-effectiveness analysis suggests that a society should allocate its health care budget in order to achieve the greatest total health for its budget. However, in ‘rescue’ cases, where an individual’s life is in immediate peril, reasoning in terms of cost-effectiveness can appear...

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The Willingness to Pay for a QALY: a Review of the Empirical Literature

Ryen, Linda; Svensson, Mikael - Handelshögskolan, Karlstads Universitet - 2014

growing literature on the monetary value of a QALY based on estimates of the willingness to pay (WTP). This paper conducts a … review of the literature on the WTP for a QALY. In total 24 studies containing 383 unique estimates of the WTP for a QALY are … analyses the results indicate that the WTP for a QALY is significantly higher if the QALY gain comes from life extension rather …

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