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,
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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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Two new books from HEDS

Books are like buses, you wait ages for one to come along and two come at the same time, or something like that. This is the case in HEDS, Information Resources as Andy Tattersall and his and colleague Anthea Sutton alongside fellow ScHARR library and information guru Andrew Booth have published books.

Anthea and Andrew's book, Systematic Approaches to a Successful Literature Review is a second edition of their popular book for Sage and an essential read for anyone wanting to conduct a high quality literature review. Fellow ScHARR colleague and previous member of Information Resources Diana Papaioannou also contributed to the title which came out this month. Whilst Andy has delivered an edited book for Facet that looks at Altmetrics and the potential for research and libraries.

Systematic Approaches to a Successful Literature Review

Showing you how to take a structured and organized approach to a wide range of literature review types, this book helps you to choose which approach is right for your research. Packed with constructive tools, examples, case studies and hands-on exercises, the book covers the full range of literature review techniques,

New to this edition:

· Full re-organization takes you step-by-step through the process from beginning to end

· New chapter showing you how to choose the right method for your project

· Practical guidance on integrating qualitative and quantitative data

· New coverage of rapid reviews

· Comprehensive inclusion of literature review tools, including concept analysis, scoping and mapping

With an emphasis on the practical skills, this guide is essential for any student or researcher needing to get from first steps to a successful literature review.

To purchase a copy

http://www.facetpublishing.co.uk/title.php?id=300105#.V3PvSRUrLcs

Altmetrics
A practical guide for librarians, researchers and academics

Whilst Andy Tattersall has published an edited book for Facet Books on the topic of altmetrics. The book also features a chapter from the ever busy Andrew Booth and fellow Information Resources member Claire Beecroft. There are also contributions from Euan Adie at Altmetric.com, Ben Showers who has published previously for Facet on the topic of bibliometrics, and a chapter from William Gunn at Mendeley.

The book also came out this month and hopes to bridge the gap between practitioner and giving advice for library, information professionals and academics how they best make use of altmetrics. 

This book gives an overview of altmetrics, its tools and how to implement them successfully to boost and measure research outputs.

New methods of scholarly communication and dissemination of information are having a huge impact on how academics and researchers build profiles and share research. This groundbreaking and highly practical guide looks at the role that library and information professionals can play in facilitating these new ways of working and demonstrating impact and influence.

Altmetrics focuses on research artefact level metrics that are not exclusive to traditional journal papers but also extend to book chapters, posters and data sets, among other items. This book explains the theory behind altmetrics, including how it came about, why it can help academics and where it sits amongst current measurements of impact.

To purchase a copy

http://www.facetpublishing.co.uk/title.php?id=300105#.V3PvSRUrLcs