This paper is of interest to analysts, policy makers and decision makers involved with descriptive clinical studies, clinical trials, programme evaluations, measuring population health, and planning assessments. It describes a recently developed system for measuring the overall health status and...

Every funding system creates “incentives.” However, in real policy applications, the motivating quality of a funding change is not inherent to the funding structure. Rather, contextual factors highly determine how organizations and individuals interpret, feel motivated by, and act in...

Recent publications have acknowledged the theoretical superiority of the healthy years equivalent (HYE) concept over quality-adjusted life-years (QALYs), but have raised questions about the practicality of measuring them. We describe a simple, two-stage, lottery-based approach to measure HYEs...