Appropriate discounting rules in economic evaluations have received considerable attention
in the literature and in national guidelines for economic evaluations. Rightfully so, as …

A substantial literature over the past thirty years has evaluated tradeoffs between money and
fatality risks. These values in turn serve as estimates of the value of a statistical life. This …

Choices on discount rates have important implications for the outcomes of economic
evaluations of health interventions and policies. In global health, such evaluations typically …

Detailed assumptions used in constructing a new indicator of the burden of disease, the
disability-adjusted life year (DALY), are presented. Four key social choices in any indicator …

" Why should applied researchers be concerned with cost-effectiveness analysis? Answer:
Because it will enable them to discover if a particular program or policy has attained …

Understanding Risk addresses a central dilemma of risk decisionmaking in a democracy:
detailed scientific and technical information is essential for making decisions, but the people …

Meta-analysis, decision analysis, and cost-effectiveness analysis are the cornerstones of
evidence-based medicine. These related quantitative methods have become essential tools …

The measurement unit disability-adjusted life years (DALYs), used in recent years to quantify
the burden of diseases, injuries and risk factors on human populations, is grounded on …

In 3 experiments choices for hypothetical amounts of future health and money showed that,
contrary to normative discounted utility theory, the temporal discount rate, or annual …

Utilities and quality-adjusted life years (QALYs) are reviewed, with particular focus on their
use in technology assessment. This article provides a broad overview and perspective on …