PR4 VALUING CHILDREN'S HEALTH FOR ECONOMIC EVALUATIONS:THEORETICAL AND METHODOLOGICAL CONSIDERATIONS

Economic Analysis in an Anthropological Setting: Some Methodological Considerations

Health Economic Assessment: A Methodological Primer

This review article aims to provide an introduction to the methodology of health economic assessment of a health technology. Attention is paid to defining the fundamental concepts and terms that are relevant to health economic assessments. The article describes the methodology underlying a cost study (identification, measurement and valuation of resource use, calculation of costs), an economic ...

Methodological Review of WTP and QALY Frameworks for Valuing Environmental Health Risks to Children

Background The lack of empirical surveys and associated lack of data in this area is a barrier to the provision of sound policy advice. Indeed, existing values used for monetisation of environment-related health impacts focus on adult populations and use scenarios that often do not match well with environmental scenarios. As such, there is concern that the continued use of existing estimates fr...

Public Health and Social Desirability in Kazakhstan: Methodological Considerations

Background As the Republic of Kazakhstan undertakes new public health efforts to promote healthy lifestyles among its citizens, the local perceptions of health and health behaviors need to be examined and understood from the sociocultural and historical perspectives. The primary aim of this study is to examine the association between perception of control on one's health and engagement in good ...

Playware Research – Methodological Considerations

Several sub-disciplines of engineering are driven by the researchers’ aim of providing positive change to the society through their engineering. These researchers are challenged by the traditional research method of experimental research with a waterfall model which demands clearly defined project definition and functional requirements, and impose a sequential processes leading to the final sys...