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Measuring and Valuing Health Benefits for Economic Evaluation
John Brazier, Julie Ratcliffe, Joshua A. Salomon, and Aki Tsuchiya
358 pages
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numerous line drawings, tables and mathematical examples
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234x156mm
978-0-19-856982-4
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Paperback
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11 January 2007
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- The most detailed textbook available on this topic, addressing all relevant theoretical and practical considerations in the measurement and valuation of health benefits
- Contains empirical examples and practical applications to help clarify understanding and make relevant links to the real world
- Includes a glossary of key terms to aid understanding of common terms used by practitioners
- Contains checklists for measurement and valuation of health benefits in practice to assist the reader in design, administration and analysis of study/data
There are not enough resources in health care systems around the world to fund all technically feasible and potentially beneficial health care interventions. Difficult choices have to be made, and economic evaluation offers a systematic and transparent process for informing such choices. A key component of economic evaluation is how to value the benefits of health care in a way that permits comparison between health care interventions. In addition, the establishment of the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) and similar bodies around the
world which require cost-effectiveness evidence to be in the form of incremental cost per QALY has resulted in an explosion of theoretical and empirical work in the field. This is the first comprehensive textbook concerning the measurement and valuation of health benefits for economic evaluation, an area which continues to be a major source of debate.
The books addresses the key questions in the measurement and valuation of health, including: the definition of health, the techniques of valuation, who should provide the values, techniques for modelling health state values, the appropriateness of tools in children and vulnerable groups, cross cultural issues, and the problem of choosing the right instrument. The book concludes with a discussion of the way forward in
light of the substantial methodological differences, the role of normative judgements, and where further research is most likely to take this fascinating component of health economics.Readership: Academics and students in the growing postgraduate market in health economics, plus other areas of public sector economics, public health, health services research, technology assessment and quality of life, will find this book invaluable. There will also be huge appeal for health service policy makers, administrators, managers and researchers. Those involved in pharmaceutical industry research and development and Global Outcomes will benefit from this practical, hands-on guide, as will practitioners for economics engaged
in generating economic evaluations for research bodies, governmental bodies (eg NICE) and non-health care agencies whose programmes effect health.
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John Brazier, Professor of Health Economics, School of Health and Related Research, University of Sheffield, UK, Julie Ratcliffe, Senior Research Fellow, School of Health and Related Research, University of Sheffield, UK, Joshua A. Salomon, Assistant Professor of International Health, Department of Population and International Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Harvard University, USA, and Aki Tsuchiya, Reader in Economics and Health Economics, School of Health and Related Research and Department of Economics, University of Sheffield, UK
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"This new text is indeed timely...[it's] a useful addition to the literature on economic evaluation." - Pharmacoeconomics, Vol 25, No 4
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1: The purpose and scope of this book
2: Introduction to the measurement and valuation of health
3: Foundations in welfare economics and utility theory: what should be valued?
4: Describing health
5: Valuing health
6: Modelling health state valuation data
7: Using ordinal data to estimate cardinal valuations
8: Methods for obtaining health state values: generic preference-based measure of health and the alternatives
9: Design and analysis of health state valuation data for trial- and model-based economic evaluations
10: A QALY is a QALY is a QALY - or is it not?
11: Measuring and valuing health: an international perspective
12: Conclusions
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