Preference measurement in health

Measurements of individual benefits of different health and medical interventions are fundamental for prioritizing among different alternative uses of resources in the healthcare sector. While psychometric measures do not necessarily provide information sufficient for assigning relative values to di...

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Other Authors Bolin, Kristian, Blomquist, Glenn C.
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K. : Emerald, 2014.
SeriesAdvances in health economics and health services research ; v. 24.
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Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781784410285
ISSN0731-2199 ;
DOI10.1108/S0731-2199201424
Physical Description1 online resource (xi, 295 p.)

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Table of Contents:
  • Altruism, efficiency and health in the family / Mark Dickie, Matthew J. Salois
  • Adolescent girls' preferences for HPV vaccines : a discrete choice experiment / Derek S. Brown ... [et al.]
  • Gender differences in risk attitudes / L. Warshawsky-Livne ... [et al.]
  • Mutual altruism : evidence from Alzheimer patients and their spouse caregivers / Markus König, Christian Pfarr, Peter Zweifel
  • How should the health benefits of food safety programs be measured? / V. Kerry Smith, Carol Mansfield, Aaron Strong
  • Pesticides and health : a review of evidence on health effects, valuation of risks, and benefit-cost analysis / Damian Tago, Henrick Andersson, Nicolas Treich.