Clinicians and public health experts make evidence-based decisions for individual patients,
patient groups and even whole populations. In addition to the principles of internal and …

Proxy assessment of health-related quality of life (HRQL) may be sought to substitute for, or
to complement, patient self-assessment. The viewpoint from which the proxy is asked to …

Background Measurement of the global burden of disease with disability-adjusted life-years
(DALYs) requires disability weights that quantify health losses for all non-fatal …

In most societies resources are insufficient to provide everyone with all the health care they
want. In practice, this means that some people are given priority over others. On what basis …

Since Aristotle, many different theories of distributive justice have been proposed, by
philosophers as well as social scientists. The typical approach within social choice theory is …

Chronically ill and disabled patients generally rate the value of their lives in a given health
state more highly than do hypothetical patients imagining themselves to be in such states …

Health equity is one of the main avowed objectives of public health policy across the world.
Yet economic evaluations in public health (like those in health care more generally) …

Background The disability weight is an essential factor to estimate the healthy time that is
lost due to living with a certain state of illness. A 2014 review showed a considerable …

Objective The aim of this study was to elicit the individual willingness to pay (WTP) for a
quality-adjusted life-year (QALY). Methods In a Web-based questionnaire containing …

Background Valuations of health states were affected by the wording of the two instruments
(EQ-5D-3L and EQ-5D-Y) and by the perspective taken (child or adult). Objectives There is a …