Objectives Multicriteria decision analysis (MCDA) has been suggested by some researchers
as a method to capture the benefits beyond quality adjusted life-years in a transparent and …

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Discrete choice experiments (DCEs) are regularly used in health economics to elicit
preferences for healthcare products and programmes. There is growing recognition that …

Compared to many applied areas of economics, health economics has a strong tradition in
eliciting and using stated preferences (SP) in policy analysis. Discrete choice experiments …

Abstract An Emergency Department (ED) is considered the heart of a hospital and in many
cities around the world, and especially in developing countries such as Brazil, it is very often …

Background Health care decision making requires making resource allocation decisions
among programs, services, and technologies that all compete for a finite resource pool …

This paper examines the commercialization of an alternative youth subculture. Sociologists
have typically focused on the ways that authorities have attempted to repress and censor …

Policy makers in low‐income and lower‐middle‐income countries (LMICs) are increasingly
looking to develop 'evidence‐based'frameworks for identifying priority health interventions …

Purpose–The aims of this paper are to explore the experiences of budget holders within the
English National Health Service (NHS), in their attempts to implement programmes of …

Health economic evaluation aims at providing information on the efficiency of interventions.
Since the 1980s, there have been major developments in the field, especially in terms of …