Background: The aim of this study was to standardize and develop the health utility index III (HUI3); quality of life questionnaire. This study was conducted for the first time in Iran. Method: Forward-backward translation method was applied in order to translate the Canadian version into Persian. The final version was developed after modifica...

Measuring health and health-related quality of life (HRQoL) is important for tracking the health of individuals and populations over time. Generic HRQoL measures allow for comparison across health conditions. One form of generic HRQoL measures are profile measures, which provide a description of health across several different domains (such as physical functioning, depression, and pain). Recent...

PURPOSE To estimate a utility-based glaucoma health outcome measure, known as the Glaucoma Utility Index. METHODS Based on focus group studies, involving people with glaucoma, existing profile measures relevant to glaucoma were modified and a six-dimensional profile instrument was developed. Dimensions were: central and near vision; lighting and glare; mobility; activities of daily living; ey...

There are different MCDA methods available. Their numerous nature makes a problem of selection of the best one a very difficult task. There are several approaches which allow to overcome such difficulty. For example, a parallel application of different methods can help a lot to deliver more trustful results of decision analysis. The presented approach applies 4 methods in parallel. All utilised...

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The scope of this paper is to analyse duration as a risk measure of life insurance liabilities from traditional life insurance products using a simple model to assess the problem. First, the liabilities are defined. Then the concept of Macauley duration as a measure for interest rate risk with respect to life insurance liabilities is derived. This concept is discussed with respect to its useful...

Willingness-to-pay (WTP) studies are increasingly being used in the evaluation of health care programmes and, although less frequently, for priority setting in health care. The usefulness of willingness-to-pay as a discriminatory tool for priority setting is considered in this paper for three different health care programmes in Ireland: cancer, cardiovascular and community care. While the resul...

Patients are tracking and generating an increasingly large volume of personal health data outside the clinic due to an explosion of wearable sensing and mobile health (mHealth) apps. The potential usefulness of these data is enormous as they can provide good measures of everyday behavior and lifestyle. However, how we can fully leverage patient-generated data (PGD) and integrate them in clinica...

The threshold and constant proportion portfolio insurance (CPPI) strategies are considered for their application in managing defined-contribution (DC) pension plans. The pension plans invest in two types of asset, riskless asset and stocks, or bonds and stocks. When the objective of pension plan is to maximize expected terminal utility that is a function of terminal pension wealth with final wa...

" sentence " should be based upon the therapeutic needs of each case with the necessity for knowledge rather than force as the deciding factor in the solution of individual problems. The treatise forms a practical, scientific and constructive statement of the present position with regard to mental hygiene and is eminently readable. It is limited in one direction only in its usefulness in that i...