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Friday 2 December 2016

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.
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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.