Measuring and valuing health benefits for economic evaluation
By: John Brazier ... [et al.].
Contributors: Brazier, John.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 344
ISBN-13: 9780198569824
Subjects: Outcome assessment (Medical care); Medical economics.; Economics, Medical.; Costs and Cost Analysis -- economics.; Models, Econometric.; Public Health -- economics.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction to the measurement and valuation of health; title: Foundations in welfare economics and utility theory : what should be valued?; title: Describing health; title: Valuing health; title: Modelling health state valuation data; title: Using ordinal data to estimate cardinal valuations; title: Methods for obtaining health state values : generic preference-based measures of health and the alternatives; title: Design and analysis of health state valuation data for trial- and model-based economic evaluations; title: A QALY is a QALY is a QALY, or is it not?; title: Measuring and valuing health : an international perspective.