Rationale: In the health economic literature, many statements on the allocation of health care resources can be found … challenging the position that health gain maximization may be considered an ethically defendable value. Methodology: First, by … the health gain maximization rule may come into conflict with deeply rooted ethical norms such as the strict obligation …

Three experiments systematically explore the robustness of stated preference estimates of health-related quality of … life (hereafter HR-QoL), a core component of the QALY calculation. The presentation of health information is manipulated to … discover how the judged severities of health states respond to these presentation changes. Specifically, splitting up an EQ-5D …

There are many pathways explaining the relationship between socioeconomic status and health; one possibility is that … some normally unobservable characteristic causes people to invest both in their financial well-being and their health. Here … we consider the possibility that the decision making processes are similar across domains and that the steps individuals …