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Socioeconomic Assessment of Meat Protein Extracts (MPE) as a New Means of Reducing the U.S. Population’s Salt Intake

Bordoloi, Bedanga; Nørgaard, Rikke Winther; … - In: Sustainability 4 (2012) 4, pp. 531-542

Excessive salt intake causes a number of cardiovascular diseases, such as strokes and hypertension. This is a burden on the individual as well as on society, because these diseases are fatal and costly to treat and live with. Much of the salt comes from processed meat such as sausages, ham, and...

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Valuing Health Risk Changes Using a Life-Cycle Consumption Framework

Newbold, Stephen C. - National Center for Environmental Economics (NCEE), … - 2011

Government agencies routinely use the “value of a statistical life” (VSL) in benefit-cost analyses of proposed environmental and safety regulations. Here I review an alternative approach for valuing health risks using a “life-cycle consumption framework.” This framework is based on an...

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

Andersson, Henrik; Hammitt, James; Sundström, Kristian - Toulouse School of Economics (TSE) - 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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Cost-Benefit Analyses of Sprinklers in Nursing Homes for Elderly

Jaldell, Henrik - Handelshögskolan, Karlstads Universitet - 2012

The risk of dying in fires in nursing homes is six times the risk of dying in fires at home in Sweden. The risk of being injured in nursing homes is even higher. The reason is that fire alarms do not help if people have problems moving around, or have dementia and do not understand what is going...

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The Willingness to Pay for a QALY - Results based on value of statistical life estimates in Sweden

Svensson, Mikael; Hultkrantz, Lars - Handelshögskolan, Karlstads Universitet - 2012

As the use of cost-effectiveness analysis with quality adjusted life years (QALY) as the outcome measure grows in … policy use, a major unresolved issue is that of the monetary value to place on a QALY. This paper addresses this issue by … estimating and discussing willingness to pay (WTP) estimates for a QALY in Sweden This paper uses all published estimates of the …

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Measuring concerns for severity: Re-examination of a health scale with purported equal interval properties

Nord, Erik - In: Health Policy 105 (2012) 2, pp. 312-316

Severity of illness is an important official criterion for priority setting in health care in a number of jurisdictions. An 8-point scale of severity and functional status has been used in a number of studies in Norway in order to estimate the strength of concerns for severity in population...

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Cost-effectiveness of percutaneous fixation with Kirschner wires versus locking-plate for adult patients with a dorsally displaced fracture of the distal radius from the DRAFFT tri...

Tubeuf, Sandy; Yu, Ge; Achten, Juul; Parsons, Nick R; … - Academic Unit of Health Economics, Leeds Institute of … - 2014

(cost per QALY) was derived from a multi-centre, two-arm, parallel group, assessor-blind randomised controlled trial which …, locking-plate fixation presented an incremental cost-effectiveness ratio of ¡ê89,322 per QALY within the first 12 months of …

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Concerns for severity in priority setting in health care: A review of trade-off data in preference studies and implications for societal willingness to pay for a QALY

Nord, Erik; Johansen, Rune - In: Health Policy 116 (2014) 2, pp. 281-288

graded willingness to pay for a QALY. …

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Optimal timing of joint replacement using mathematical programming and stochastic programming models

Keren, Baruch; Pliskin, Joseph - In: Health Care Management Science 14 (2011) 4, pp. 361-369

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The social value of health programs: Is age a relevant factor?

Rodríguez-Míguez, Eva; Pinto, José Luis - Departamento de Economía Aplicada, Facultade de … - 1999

In cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA) it is usually assumed that a QALY is of equal value to everybody, irrespective of … the patient's age. However, it is possible that society assigns different social values to a QALY according to who gets it …

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