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Health : Measures of Health Benefits.
Health: What Is It Worth?
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Burlington :
Elsevier Science,
1979.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front Cover; Health: what is it Worth?: Measures of Health Benefits; Copyright Page; Contributors; Tableof Contents; Preface; Foreword; Introduction; PART 1: Measure of Health Status; Chapter 1. Health Status Measures, Policy, andBiomedical Research; HEALTH OR FUNCTION STATES; PROGNOSIS; WEIGHTING HEALTH STATES; SINGLE INDICATORS-MORTALITY AND MORBIDITY; BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; COMBINED INDICATORS WITHOUTEXPLICIT REFERENCE MEASUREMENT; HEALTH STATUS MEASURES WITHEXPLICIT PREFERENCE SCALES; USES OF HEALTH STATUS MEASURESIN PUBLIC DECISION MAKING; REFERENCES.
- Chapter 2. An Approach tothe Assessment of Long-Term CareMETHODS; APPLICATION OF THE PATIENT CLASSIFICATION TO PROGRAMEVALUATION IN LONG ISLAND CHRONIC DISEASE HOSPITAL; REFERENCES; PART 2.: Valuing Health and Health Benefits; Chapter 3. The Social Valueof Saving a Life; HOW MUCH TO SAVE A LIFE; WHAT THE AVERAGE PERSON WILL PAY; HOW TO QUANTIFY nL; REFERENCES; Chapter 4. Social Valuation of Life- and Health-Saving Activties by the Demand-Revealing Process; ILLUSTRATING THE NEW WILLINGNESS-TO-PAY CRITERION; APPLICATION OF THE CRITERION; CONCLUSION; REFERENCES.
- Chapter 5. The Willingness-to-Pay Criterion and Public Program Evaluation in HealthAN OPTIMIZATION MODEL FORRESOURCE ALLOCATION TO HEALTH; WILLINGNESS TO PAY AND THE OPTIMALALLOCATION OF HEALTH RESOURCES; SUMMARY; APPENDIX; REFERENCES; Chaptre 6. Issues in the Conceptualization and Measurement of Value Placed on Health; SCALING OF ITEMS; FINDINGS; SOME SUGGESTIONS FOR FUTURE RESEARCH; REFERENCES; Chapter 7. Willingness to Pay for Probabilistic Improvements in Functional Health Status: A Psychological Perspective; WILLINGNESS TO PAY FOR HEALTH STATUS:A DECISION THEORY PERSPECTIVE.
- PSYCHOLOGICAL STUDIES OF JUDGMENT AND CHOICE:IMPLICATIONS FOR THE ASSESSMENT OF WILLINGNESS TO PAYOPERATIONAL PROCEDURES FOR ASSESSING WILLINGNESS TO PAY; SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS; REFERENCES; PART 3: Returns to Biomedical Investments; Chapter 8. Measuring Returns toTechnical Innovation in Health Care: The Utility Theory Approach; EXISTING TECHNIQUES AND THEIR LIMITATIONS; SOCIAL BENEFITS BASED UPON THE UTILITY THEORY APPROACH; SUMMARY AND CONCLUSION; REFERENCES; Chapter 9. Economies and Epidemiology: Application to Cancer; ECONOMICS AND EPIDEMIOLOGY; THE CANCER APPLICATION.
- QUANTITATIVE ASPECTS OF THE STUDYCONCLUSION; REFERENCES; PART 4: Health Resource Allocations; Chapter 10. Allocation and Priority Setting in Research; MEASURES FOR RESOURCE ALLOCATION; THE LEVEL OF INVESTMENT; Chapter 11. Returns to Biomedical Research in Chronic Diseases: A Case Study of Resource Allocation; DIABETES: A CHRONIC DISEASE; RESEARCH FUNDING; NIAMDD Funding; DEMAND VERSUS SUPPLY APPROACH TO RESEARCH FUNDING; FURTHER ISSUES AND PROBLEMS; REFERENCES; Chapter 12. The Relationship Between Children's Health and Intellectual Development; I. ANALYTICAL FRAMEWORK AND CURRENT LITERATURE.