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Monday 6 January 2020

New Project - Inequality aversion to health by EQ-5D domain

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Prof Aki Tsuchiya
HEDS are leading on a EuroQol Group funded project which aims to examine empirically, whether public preferences regarding inequality in health depend on the type of health gain provided by an intervention, where this is defined by EQ-5D domains.

Professor Aki Tsuchiya is the primary investigator with Simon McNamara as co-investigator. Simon McNamara is a PhD student at the Wellcome Doctoral Training Centre, and the findings will be part of his doctoral thesis. 
The research will use fieldwork involving an online survey of the UK general public through a commercial internet panel.


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Simon McNamara
Why this is important / Who will benefit?

It is reasonably well established that public preferences in the UK are averse to inequalities in lifetime health where the latter is expressed in terms of expected age of death and the efficiency-equality trade-off is measured in terms of life years in full health. It is not known whether this aversion is a generalisation from life years in full health to quality adjusted life years, or whether this may depend on the type of health gain provided by an intervention. The findings from this project will inform the adoption of distributional cost effectiveness analyses for health care resource allocation decision


 Professor Tsuchiya's publications


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