The value of health-Empirical issues when estimating the monetary value of a quality-adjusted life year based on well-being data.

ABSTRACT: Decisions on interventions or policy alternatives affecting health can be informed by economic evaluations, like cost-benefit or cost-utility analyses. In this context, there is a need for valid estimates of the monetary equivalent value of health (gains), which are often expressed in € per quality-adjusted life years (QALYs). Obtaining such estimates remains methodologically challenging, with a recent addition to the health economists' toolbox, which is based on well-being data: The well-being valuation approach. Using general population panel data from Germany, we put this approach to the test by investigating several empirical and conceptual challenges, such as the appropriate functional specification of income utility, the choice of health utility tariffs, or the health state dependenc

SUBMITTER: Himmler S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8360130 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature