[Valuation of health-related quality of life and utilities in health economics].
Measuring health-related quality of life is an important aspect in economic evaluation of health programmes. The development of utility-based (preference-based) measures is advanced by the discipline of health economics. Different preference measures are applied for valuing health states to produce a weighted health state index. Those preference weights should be derived from a general population sample in case of resource allocation on a collective level (as in current valuation studies of the EuroQol group).
Universität Bielefeld, Fakultät für Gesundheitswissenschaften, Gesundheitsökonomie und Gesundheitsmanagement (AG 5), Bielefeld. Electronic address: wolfgang.greiner@uni-bielefeld.de.
Wolfgang
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Greiner
Universität Bielefeld, Fakultät für Gesundheitswissenschaften, Gesundheitsökonomie und Gesundheitsmanagement (AG 5), Bielefeld.
Kristina
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Klose
D003362:Cost-Benefit Analysis / Q000191:economics; D005858:Germany; D006305:Health Status Indicators; D006801:Humans; D009313:National Health Programs / Q000191:economics*; D011594:Psychometrics / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D011788:Quality of Life / Q000523:psychology*; D019057:Quality-Adjusted Life Years; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D026712:Value of Life
Gesundheitsbezogene Lebensqualität; Gesundheitsökonomie; Health-related quality of life; Lebensqualitätsbewertung; Nutzwerte; Präferenzmessung; health economics; preference measurement; utilities; valuation