New Edition of Measuring and Valuing Health Benefits for Economic Evaluation released

The second edition of the highly popular Measuring and Valuing Health Benefits for Economic Evaluation has been published.

Measuring and
 Valuing Health Benefits
for Economic Evaluation

Written by HEDS colleagues Professor John Brazier, Professor Julie Ratcliffe (Flinders Health Economics Group), Professor Aki Tsuchiya and Professor Joshua Salomon from the Harvard School of Public Health.,

• The book addresses all relevant theoretical and practical considerations in the measurement and valuation of health benefits. It contains practical applications to help clarify understanding and make relevant links to the real world, and includes a glossary of key terms to aid understanding of common terms used by practitioners.

Measuring and Valuing Health Benefits for Economic Evaluation examines the measurement and valuation of health benefits, reviews the explosion of theoretical and empirical work in the field, and explores an area of research that continues to be a major source of debate. It addresses the key questions in the field including the definition of health, the techniques of valuation, and the problem of choosing the right instrument. This is an ideal resource for anyone wishing to gain a specialised understanding of health benefit measurement in economic evaluation, especially those working in the fields of health economics, public sector economics, pharmacoeconomics and health services research.

• Measuring and Valuing Health Benefits for Economic
  Evaluation
  examines the measurement and
  valuation of health benefits, reviews the
  explosion of theoretical and empirical work in
  the field, and explores an area of research that
  continues to be a major source of debate. It
  addresses the key questions in the field including
  the definition of health, the techniques of
  valuation, and the problem of choosing the
  right instrument.
  This is an ideal resource for anyone wishing to
  gain a specialised understanding of health benefit
  measurement in economic evaluation, especially
  those working in the fields of health economics,
  publ

New to this Edition:

• Covers all new measures of health and wellbeing for example ICECAP, ASCOT and numerous condition-specific measures and revisions to existing widely used ( measures for example 5 level version of EQ-5D, DF-6D V2 and AQoL-2.

• Fully revised to take into account new research into the social weighting of a QALY, use of the internet to collect data, use of health state utility values in cost effectiveness models, and new version of TTO.
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