Objectives The recently published EQ-5D-Y valuation protocol prescribes the general public
values EQ-5D-Y health states for a 10-year-old child. This child perspective differs from the …

Objectives Decision-making frameworks that draw on economic evaluations increasingly
use equity weights to facilitate a more equitable and fair allocation of healthcare resources …

The oft-applied assumption in the use of Quality Adjusted Life Years (QALYs) in economic
evaluation, that all QALYs are valued equally, has been questioned from the outset. The …

Abstract Background and Objectives Common health state valuation methodology, such as
time tradeoff (TTO) and standard gamble (SG), is typically applied under several …

Background Priority setting in healthcare can be guided by both efficiency and equity
principles. The latter principle is often explicated in terms of disease severity and, for …

We provide a unifying framework for the evaluation of population health. We formalize
several axioms for social preferences over distributions of health. We show that a specific …

Time trade‐off utilities have been suggested to be biased upwards. This bias is a result of
the method being applied assuming linear utility of life duration, which is violated when …

Background Acceptable health and sufficientarianism are emerging concepts in health
resource allocation. We defined acceptability as the proportion of the general population …

People do not only care about maximizing health gains but also about their distribution. For
example, they give more weight to younger patients than older patients. This pilot study aims …

Objectives The aim of this study was to assess the reliability, dimensionality and validity of
the self-report questionnaire Health-Risk Attitude Scale (HRAS-13) in a sample of the …