Introduction: The health care budget in the UK is finite and, as such, decisions must be made about how best to allocate scarce resources. Cost effectiveness analysis, and its overall summary measure of cost per quality adjusted life year (QALY) gained from an intervention, is used as part of...

The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) in the UK makes recommendations to the NHS on the adoption (or continuation) of therapies. This requires judgements about whether the values/weights attached to gains in quality and length of life should vary according to the...

Economics should provide the theory and solutions to help healthcare organizations make priority setting decisions. However, the impact of economics and health economic methods in particular on such decision-making is not clear. This presentation draws together research conducted in the England,...

Monetary valuation of both health and non health outcomes using stated preference data is gaining currency in health economics. Discrete choice experiments (DCEs) offer one form of stated preference data used for this purpose. In particular, the Hicksian compensating variation can be used to...

Social finance and health -- Rethinking . . . finance -- Rethinking . . . the funding of health care -- Rethinking . . . how to act on health inequalities -- Social finance . . . funding health (care) services -- Social finance . . . acting on health -- Social finance . . . facilitating access...