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<TOGGLE>Advances in Health Economics</TOGGLE>, by Anthony Scott, Alan Maynard and Robert Elliott (Eds). John Wiley and Sons Ltd, Chichester, 2002. No. of pages: xxi&plus;249. ISBN 0-470-84883-9
Williams, Alan - In: Health Economics 12 (2003) 5, pp. 430-430
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Intergenerational Equity: An Exploration of the 'Fair Innings' Argument
Williams, Alan - In: Health Economics 6 (1997) 2, pp. 117-132
Many different equity principles may need to be traded off against efficiency when prioritizing health care. This paper explores one of them: the concept of a 'fair innings'. It reflects the feeling that everyone is entitled to some 'normal' span of health (usually expressed in life years, e.g....
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Medicine, economics, ethics and the NHS: a clash of cultures?
Williams, Alan - In: Health Economics 7 (1998) 7, pp. 565-568
OID="af1" CNY="GB">University of York, York, UK
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Science or marketing at WHO? A commentary on 'World Health 2000'
Williams, Alan - In: Health Economics 10 (2001) 2, pp. 93-100
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Primeval health economics in Britain: A personal retrospect of the pre‐HESG period
Williams, Alan - In: Health Economics 7 (1998) S1, pp. 3-3
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Logical inconsistencies in survey respondents' health state valuations - a methodological challenge for estimating social tariffs
Devlin, Nancy J.; Hansen, Paul; Kind, Paul; Williams, Alan - In: Health Economics 12 (2003) 7, pp. 529-544
Logical inconsistencies in survey respondents' valuations of hypothetical health states - represented by the EQ-5D, for example - present a conundrum as to whether or not their responses ought to be included for estimating social 'tariffs'. A 'logical inconsistency' occurs when a state that 'in...
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The 'fair innings argument' deserves a fairer hearing&excl; comments by Alan Williams on Nord and Johannesson
Williams, Alan - In: Health Economics 10 (2001) 7, pp. 583-585
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QALY maximisation and people's preferences: a methodological review of the literature
Dolan, Paul; Shaw, Rebecca; Tsuchiya, Aki; Williams, Alan - In: Health Economics 14 (2005) 2, pp. 197-208
In cost-utility analysis, the numbers of quality-adjusted life years (QALYs) gained are aggregated according to the sum-ranking (or QALY maximisation) rule. This requires that the social value from health improvements is a simple product of gains in quality of life, length of life and the number...
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Cost-value analysis in health care: making sense out of QALYs by Eric Nord. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1999. No. of pages: 157. ISBN 0 521 64434 8.
Williams, Alan - In: Health Economics 9 (2000) 8, pp. 740-741
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