Health: What Is It Worth? ：Measures of Health Benefits

Publication subTitle ：Measures of Health Benefits

Author： Mushkin   Selma J.;Dunlop   David W.  

Publisher： Elsevier Science‎

Publication year： 2013

E-ISBN: 9781483188935

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780080238982

P-ISBN(Hardback):  9780080238982

Subject： C91 Sociology;D0 Political Theory;R Medicine and Health;R-6 Reference Books of Medicine and Health;R1 Preventive Medicine , Health;R4 Clinical Medicine;R68 (content in Kinesiology of Department of Orthopedics diseases, orthopedics)

Keyword： 社会学,医药、卫生,医药、卫生工具书,外科学,预防医学、卫生学,临床医学

Language： ENG

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Description

Health: What Is It Worth?: Measures of Health Benefits is a collection of papers that tackles concerns in health care services and health benefit systems.
The title first deals with the measure of health status, along with the policy that governs it and the results of contemporary biomedical research. The text also covers the approaches for the assessment of long-term care. The next part talks about valuing health and health benefits. Next, the selection deals with a method for the computation of the social rate of returns derived from investments in biomedical research. The last part discusses the concerns in health resource allocation.
The book will be of great interest to the legislative bodies of governments, health officials, and health professionals.

Chapter

Front Cover

Health: what is it Worth?: Measures of Health Benefits

Copyright Page

Tableof Contents

Contributors

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 Care

METHODS

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 Health

AN 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 PAY

OPERATIONAL 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 STUDY

CONCLUSION

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

II. DATA AND MEASUREMENT OF VARIABLES

III. RESULTS

IV. SUMMARY AND IMPLICATIONS

REFERENCES

Chapter 13. Health Indexes for Health Assessments

LEVELS OF HEALTH STATUS

CONSUMER PREFERENCES

REFERENCES

Bibliography

Index

Pergamon Policy Studies

Front Cover

Health: what is it Worth?: Measures of Health Benefits

Copyright Page

Tableof Contents

Contributors

Preface

Foreword

Introduction

PART 1: Measure of Health Status

Chapter 2. An Approach tothe Assessment of Long-Term Care

PART 2.: Valuing Health and Health Benefits

Chapter 4. Social Valuation of Life- and Health-Saving Activties by the Demand-Revealing Process

Chapter 5. The Willingness-to-Pay Criterion and Public Program Evaluation in Health

Chaptre 6. Issues in the Conceptualization and Measurement of Value Placed on Health

Chapter 7. Willingness to Pay for Probabilistic Improvements in Functional Health Status: A Psychological Perspective

PART 3: Returns to Biomedical Investments

Chapter 9. Economies and Epidemiology: Application to Cancer

PART 4: Health Resource Allocations

Chapter 11. Returns to Biomedical Research in Chronic Diseases: A Case Study of Resource Allocation

Chapter 12. The Relationship Between Children's Health and Intellectual Development

Chapter 13. Health Indexes for Health Assessments

Bibliography

Index

Pergamon Policy Studies

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