Background Public sector austerity measures in many high-income countries mean that
public health budgets are reducing year on year. To help inform the potential impact of these …

RATIONALE: Increasing attention is being given to the evaluation of public health interventions.
Methods for the economic evaluation of clinical interventions are well established. In …

… Consequently, they may well interpret questions in unanticipated ways and bring to bear
wider considerations that the economist wishes to set aside [Dolan and Cookson (1998)]. In …

BackgroundQuality of life is the subject of growing interest and investigation.AimsTo develop
and validate a short, self-report quality of life questionnaire (the Schizophrenia Quality of …

Three effects of apparently superficial changes in presentation (“framing effects” in a broad
sense), were replicated together in the same repeated linear public goods experiment with …

This paper compares and contrasts three different substantive (as opposed to procedural)
principles of justice for making health care priority-setting or “rationing” decisions: need …

Objective: To investigate the extent to which people change their views about priority setting
in health care as a result of discussion and deliberation. Design: A random sample of …

This articles serves as a guide to using cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA) to address health
equity concerns. We first introduce the "equity impact plane," a tool for considering trade-offs …

There is currently considerable interest in developing sustainable absorbers, either from
biomass materials or recycled materials, and it is the former that is the subject of this paper. A …

This paper reviews what is known about socio‐economic inequalities in health care in
England, with particular attention to inequalities relative to need that may be considered unfair (‘…