Recording of CWiPP Keynote Lecture - Professor Daniel Hausman “Health, Well-being and Preferences”

The Centre for Wellbeing in Public Policy welcomed Professor Daniel Hausman to Sheffield to deliver a keynote lecture on “Health, Well-being and Preferences”. The lecture was recorded and can be viewed below.





The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) uses a methodology that relies on representing the benefits of health care technologies in terms of numbers, by relying on public preferences over different health states. Dan Hausman presents his critique of this approach by addressing “a different and potentially powerful argument in defence of assigning values by eliciting preferences.”

CWiPP Keynote Lecture "Health, Well-being and Preferences"

Professor Daniel Hausman

The Centre for Wellbeing in Public Policy (CWiPP) are hosting a Keynote Lecture by Professor Daniel Hausman (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA), on: "Health, Well-being and Preferences".

The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) uses a methodology that relies on representing the benefits of health care technologies in terms of numbers, by relying on public preferences over different health states. Dan Hausman will present his critique of this approach by addressing "a different and potentially powerful argument in defence of assigning values by eliciting preferences."

When: Thursday 30 November, 5.30-6.30pm Where: Lecture Theatre 7, The Diamond Please register at: https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/cwipp/eventscurrent For queries, please email: wellbeing@sheffield.ac.uk Information related to this message is available at https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/cwipp.

CWiPP annual lecture

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The Centre for Well-being and Health in Public Policy (CWiPP) was pleased to have Professor James Nazroo speaking on age well-being and inequality at its annual lecture on 7th May 2014.

Thanks to everyone who attended. The lecture slides and recording are now available here.

BHPS Workshop

The Centre for Health and Wellbeing in Public Policy (CWiPP) and the Institute for Economic Analysis of Decision Making (InstEAD) would like to invite you to a workshop on the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) and Understanding Society (US).

The workshop will provide an overview to the BHPS and US. The BHPS began in 1991 and it follows the same representative sample of individuals over a period of years. The survey is household-based, interviewing every adult member of sampled households and it contains sufficient cases for meaningful analysis of certain groups such as the elderly or lone parent families.

The Wave 1 panel consists of some 5,500 households and 10,300 individuals drawn from 250 areas of Great Britain. Additional samples of 1,500 households in each of Scotland and Wales were added to the main sample in 1999, and in 2001 a sample of 2,000 households was added in Northern Ireland, making the panel suitable for UK-wide research.

In 2010, it merged into a new survey: Understanding Society, which covers 40,000 households. BHPS and US include questions on: personal background, finances, expectations and aspirations, employment, health and happiness, family and friends. From 2010 some 20,000 participants in US aged over 16 also received nurse visits and provided a blood sample and some basic physical measurements (height, weight, blood pressure, grip strength).

Tessa Peasgood (HEDS) and Karl Taylor (Economics) will give an introduction to the sample, the waves, and the key variables, and discuss ways in which the rich data can be used for analysis.

The workshop is on 25th March, 12-1pm at the University. To book a place, contact: Jayne Parkin j.e.parkin@sheffield.ac.uk