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- Title
The value of health.
- Authors
Groot W; van den Brink HM; Groot, Wim; van den Brink, Henriëtte Maassen
- Abstract
<bold>Background: </bold>A major problem in cost-effectiveness studies is where to draw the line between interventions which are cost-effective and those who are not. Lacking a notion about the value of a QALY, all ultimate values to the cost-effectiveness ratio are essentially arbitrary.<bold>Methods: </bold>This paper presents a simple empirical model to estimate the compensating income variation of diseases and health problems. The model is estimated using data for the Netherlands.<bold>Results: </bold>The compensating income variation is between euro 20,000 and euro 90,000. This is higher than most of the ultimate values used by policy-makers to decide whether an intervention is cost-effective. Our figures are roughly similar to those found in studies about the value of a statistical life year.<bold>Conclusion: </bold>Estimates on the compensating income variation of diseases and health problems may provide useful information on the maximum acceptable cost-effectiveness ratio of medical interventions than those currently used by policy makers.
- Publication
BMC Health Services Research, 2008, Vol 8, p136
- ISSN
1472-6963
- Publication type
letter
- DOI
10.1186/1472-6963-8-136