This paper proposes a method to evaluate health losses or gains by looking at the impact on well-being of a change in … health status. The paper presents estimates of the equivalent income change that would be necessary to change general … satisfaction with life to the same extent as a change in health satisfaction would do. In other words, we estimate the income …

This paper proposes a method to evaluate health losses or gains by looking at the impact on well-being of a change in … health status. The paper presents estimates of the equivalent income change that would be necessary to change general … satisfaction with life to the same extent as a change in health satisfaction would do. In other words, we estimate the income …

QALY, Lebensqualität, Gesundheitsökonomie, Präferenzen, Kosten-Effektivitäts-Analysen, Quality-Adjusted Life Years …, Patient Preferences, Health Status, Quality of Life, Cost Effectiveness …Calculations of quality adjusted life years (QALYs) in cost-utility analyses (CUA) are often based on health state …

Utility-based measures for health-related quality of life gain more and more importance in cost-effectiveness analysis …. The axiomatic foundation qualifies them as decision weights in use of the QALY concept. But their use is strained for they … reasonable to combine quality of life with length of life, those attributes fundamental to the QALY concept. One of those …