This paper examines applications of non-expected utility in the health domain. The most widely used utility model in health economics, the time-linear QALY model, assumes (i) separability of quality of life and life duration, and (ii) linearity of the utility for life duration. We perform new tests, which are robust to violations of expected utility, of these two assumptions. The data support s...

BACKGROUND Utility estimates are important health outcomes for economic evaluation of care and treatment interventions for patients with HIV/AIDS. We conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis of utility measurements to examine the performance of preference-based instruments, estimate health utility of patients with HIV/AIDS by disease stages, and investigate changes in their health utilit...

BACKGROUND Few cost-utility studies of child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS) use quality adjusted life years (a combination of utility weights and time in health state) as the outcome to enable comparison across disparate programs and modalities. Part of the solution to this problem involves embedding preference-based health-related quality of life (PBHRQOL) utility instruments, w...

Background In France, the laws of 27 June 1990 modified by the law of 4 March 2002 define the scope and procedures of involuntary hospitalizations. Regarding hospitalization by the public authorities the laws state that there must be a threat to the safety of individuals or a serious threat to public order. This procedure is applied since 1838, yet its practice and usefulness have never been as...

BACKGROUND An increasing amount of studies report mapping algorithms which predict EQ-5 D utility values using disease specific non-preference-based measures. Yet many mapping algorithms have been found to systematically overpredict EQ-5 D utility values for patients in poor health. Currently there are no guidelines on how to deal with this problem. This paper is concerned with the question of ...

introduction: the internal evaluation is a process to improve the quality of the education using the collection and judgment of data. considering some principles about educational measurement and data collection causes better recognizing of this process. in this study, we conducted the internal evaluation of department of health care management, school of allied medical sciences in tehran unive...

We consider an optimal health insurance design problem with constraints under utility of health, wealth and income. The preference framework we establish herein describes the trade-off among income explicitly, which is beneficial to distinguish from other nonlife designs. Moreover, work takes into account case that if insured severely or critically ill, may not fully recover even after necessar...

There are two key components to constructing summary measures of population health quality: a health-status classification system and a valuation function. The former was discussed in part 7. My remarks on that session are also relevant here (see chapter 7.2). The latter will be the focus of my brief remarks here. I will concentrate on three major topics: a conceptual foundation that supports a...

Kayima, J.K