The positive relationship between household income and child health is well documented in the child health literature but the precise mechanisms via which income generates better health and whether the income gradient is increasing in child age are not well understood. This paper presents new...

The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) has been using a cost-effectiveness threshold range between £20 000 and £30 000 for over 7 years. What the cost-effectiveness threshold represents, what the appropriate level is for NICE to use, and what the other factors are...

The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) has been using a cost-effectiveness threshold range between £20 000 and £30 000 for over 7 years. What the cost-effectiveness threshold represents, what the appropriate level is for NICE to use, and what the other factors are...

Mark Pauly's (Pauly, 1994a) editorial comment on Labelle et al. (1994a) sows seeds whose harvest is a dangerous confusion of intellectual categories. Out of that confusion, he dismisses as irrelevant an approach to the evaluation of social arrangements in health care that we and many others...

This paper provides a critical appraisal of the application of economic evaluative techniques to problems of health service efficiency. Focusing largely on the British literature, it selects some recurring issues, comments on them from a theoretical point of view, and illustrates them with...

This paper points out an elementary logical error in a recent criticism by J. Patrick Gunning of an article by the present author. It also argues that Gunning has confused the two criteria for improvements in social welfare that are associated with Pareto's name.