Most would agree that priority setting is necessary to avoid a financial collapse in the health sector. It is much … a reason hyprefernce-based methods for evaluations of different health states are not as common and popular as they … summarized in a so-called "Prospect Theory". These biases are quite obvious if one compares data of affected and unaffected …

Utility-based measures for health-related quality of life gain more and more importance in cost-effectiveness analysis … remaining life years in order to gain better health. This assumption restricts the underlying utility functions for life years … exchange the same number of life years for better health, independent of remaining life expectancy. Pliskin et al. mentioned …

physical handicaps. The analysis is based on an individual self-rating health satisfaction question asked in the British … Household Panel Survey data set. This question provides a natural cardinalization of health utility .Our method is a refinement … of the method introduced by Cutler and Richardson (1997). We extend their approach in two directions. First, the health …