http://aheblog.com UK-centric blog for news, analysis and developments in health economics Mon, 20 May 2013 08:27:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://aheblog.com/2013/05/20/the-potential-of-the-super-qaly-to-reconcile-the-key-contentions-in-health-economics/#comment-1204 Mon, 20 May 2013 08:27:44 +0000 http://aheblog.com/?p=1234#comment-1204 I like the super QALY, although naming it as such may be a little grandiose for many people’s taste! I disagree when you say ‘How we define the equity analysis is incidental’ but I agree that Daniel’s opportunities approach is a good one to pick, particularly since it is independent of utility/welfare and may therefore be a good representative for a measure of equity while the traditional QALY can be our measure of efficiency. This appeals to our notion that equity and efficiency are orthogonal. You could then pick the intervention that had the ‘maximum point’ on a grid with equity on one axis and efficiency on the other. If you picked a measure of equity based on our measure of efficiency it may become more complicated. Just a thought…

]]> http://aheblog.com/2013/05/20/the-potential-of-the-super-qaly-to-reconcile-the-key-contentions-in-health-economics/#comment-1203 Mon, 20 May 2013 07:57:54 +0000 http://aheblog.com/?p=1234#comment-1203 Reblogged this on Chris Sampson.

]]> http://aheblog.com/2013/05/06/to-whom-the-benefits/#comment-1202 Mon, 20 May 2013 07:06:30 +0000 http://aheblog.com/?p=1224#comment-1202 […] RSS ← To whom the benefits? […]

]]> http://aheblog.com/2011/07/13/what-does-a-health-value-of-zero-mean/#comment-1201 Mon, 20 May 2013 07:06:27 +0000 http://aheblog.com/?p=167#comment-1201 […] so much as ‘death’ is used in the valuation of health states. This is problematic, as has been discussed. Economists haven’t really gotten round to disagreeing about this yet, but there’s […]

]]> http://aheblog.com/2013/03/26/a-comment-on-health-inequality/#comment-1071 Mon, 06 May 2013 06:30:18 +0000 http://aheblog.com/?p=1108#comment-1071 [...] bottom and top, but this is only because there is a limit to the improvements healthcare can make (QALYs do not go higher than one). If there were no limit to health improvements our current system would not affect the [...]

]]> http://aheblog.com/2012/09/26/some-comments-on-obesity/#comment-1070 Mon, 06 May 2013 06:30:16 +0000 http://aheblog.com/?p=610#comment-1070 [...] personal responsibility. A popular standpoint is one of luck egalitarianism (I have discussed this before). Health care should iron out the inequalities over which the individual has no personal control [...]

]]> http://aheblog.com/2011/07/13/what-does-a-health-value-of-zero-mean/#comment-1042 Mon, 29 Apr 2013 12:52:38 +0000 http://aheblog.com/?p=167#comment-1042 Interesting paper in Quality of Life Research looks at the extent to which a person’s valuation of euthanasia is reflected in their TTO valuations: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22678351

]]> http://aheblog.com/hejc/#comment-1038 Mon, 29 Apr 2013 09:15:13 +0000 http://aheblog.com/?page_id=563#comment-1038 [...] #HEJC [...]

]]> http://aheblog.com/2013/04/25/is-this-recession-good-for-your-health/#comment-1011 Thu, 25 Apr 2013 09:37:42 +0000 http://aheblog.com/?p=1166#comment-1011 I think the main point is that there are different effects in the short-term and long-term. A short spell of unemployment or reduced income may lead you to change you behaviour with the expectation that your income will bounce back, you may also have access to credit or savings and be able to do some consumption smoothing. But, in the long term we start to see the effects of socioeconomic deprivation. I think that austerity since it will reduce people’s income and people’s expectations of future income and probably their access to credit will create a long term effect rather than a short term one.

]]> http://aheblog.com/2013/04/25/is-this-recession-good-for-your-health/#comment-1010 Thu, 25 Apr 2013 09:31:56 +0000 http://aheblog.com/?p=1166#comment-1010 …It’d also be interesting to know what the impact of austerity has been on people’s health – controlling for the effects of the recession. Could austerity limit the beneficial health effects of the recession by cutting services that primarily benefit the least well-off (in terms of income and health)? I’ll leave it to you to figure that one out.

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