Background Understanding patient preferences in cancer management is essential for
shared decision-making. Patient or societal willingness-to-pay (WTP) for desired outcomes …

This paper provides a first application of the techniques of benefits transfer to the health
economics literature. These techniques seek to transfer the value of some good from one …

This paper shows a contingent valuation exercise of pollution abatement in remote lakes. In
addition to estimating the usual interval data model, it applies a point and interval statistical …

An ageing population provokes an economic interest in the resource allocation questions
posed by long-term care and critically, the development of sustainable community-based …

Political economy has to take as the measure of utility of an object the maximum sacrifice
which each consumer would be willing to make in order to acquire the object... the only real …

'Political economy has to take as the measure of utility of an object the maximum sacrifice
which each consumer would be willing to make in order to acquire the object... the only real …

The proportion of total health care expenditure devoted to mental health care in Ireland, at
just below 7%, is low relative to other countries. There have been few studies that have …

Improving public involvement in health system decision making stands as a primary health
policy goal. However, still limited guidance is available on how best to elicit preferences for …

Cost-benefit analysis (CBA) is the root of Health Economics and is based on the welfare
theory. CBA is the broadest economic evaluation (EE) method that assesses all benefits and …

It is possible to stretch analogies too far, which is how some readers may interpret this
response to Smith and Sach's latest journey on the good ship 'willingness-to-pay-database' …