Valuing Health
The Generalized and Risk-Adjusted Cost-Effectiveness (GRACE) Model
Published on 22. March 2024
Book
Paperback/Softback
328 pages
978-0-19-768629-4 (ISBN)
Description
Cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA) plays an important role in health policy debates, helping to shape resource allocation and pricing decisions. Yet many economists also recognize that the current framework can offer misleading and incomplete results. Current CEA methods imply that health improvements are equally valuable to those in good health and poor health, which fails to recognize the increased value of health improvements for those with severe illness or disability.
Valuing Health introduces the generalized risk-adjusted cost-effectiveness (GRACE) model as a more accurate method for determining the value of medical treatments and technologies. The GRACE model generalizes the underlying CEA assumption of constant gains in health care, demonstrating through diminishing returns the greater economic value of improving the quality of life for individuals with disability or severe illness. Valuing Health also provides sensitivity analyses to show how value measurements change alongside key parameters, including the potential effects of various combinations of risk preferences on the aggregate value of treating a defined population with any set of available treatments. It concludes with a discussion of the ethical differences between the CEA and GRACE methods and outlines steps for implementing the GRACE model to replace standard CEA as the proper method for valuing medical interventions.
Valuing Health offers a revelatory reconceptualization of current valuation models in health economics with clear guidance for inclusive pricing and regulation that reflects the true value of modern health care.
Valuing Health introduces the generalized risk-adjusted cost-effectiveness (GRACE) model as a more accurate method for determining the value of medical treatments and technologies. The GRACE model generalizes the underlying CEA assumption of constant gains in health care, demonstrating through diminishing returns the greater economic value of improving the quality of life for individuals with disability or severe illness. Valuing Health also provides sensitivity analyses to show how value measurements change alongside key parameters, including the potential effects of various combinations of risk preferences on the aggregate value of treating a defined population with any set of available treatments. It concludes with a discussion of the ethical differences between the CEA and GRACE methods and outlines steps for implementing the GRACE model to replace standard CEA as the proper method for valuing medical interventions.
Valuing Health offers a revelatory reconceptualization of current valuation models in health economics with clear guidance for inclusive pricing and regulation that reflects the true value of modern health care.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
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Height: 226 mm
Width: 160 mm
Thickness: 36 mm
Weight
476 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-768629-4 (9780197686294)
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The Generalized and Risk-Adjusted Cost-Effectiveness (GRACE) Model
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The Generalized and Risk-Adjusted Cost-Effectiveness (GRACE) Model
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Charles E. Phelps | Darius N. Lakdawalla
Valuing Health
The Generalized and Risk-Adjusted Cost-Effectiveness (GRACE) Model
E-Book
01/2024
OUP eBook
€27.49
Available for download
Persons
Charles E. Phelps, PhD, is University Professor and Provost Emeritus at the University of Rochester. He has previously served as Director of RAND's Program on Regulatory Policies and Institutions and helped found the RAND Health Insurance Study. He is the author of more than one hundred peer-reviewed articles in health economics and policy and the foundational textbook, Health Economics. He has been a member of the National Academy of Medicine since 1991 and he received the Victor R. Fuchs Award for Lifetime Contributions to the Field of Health Economics from the American Society of Health Economists in 2019. He currently serves as a consultant to the Innovation and Value Initiative and the Office of Health Economics in the United Kingdom.
Darius Lakdawalla, PhD, is Quintiles Professor of Pharmaceutical Development and Regulatory Innovation, Professor of Pharmaceutical Economics and Public Policy, and Director of Research at the Leonard D. Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and
Economics at the University of Southern California. Dr. Lakdawalla is currently a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and an associate editor for The Journal of Health Economics. He previously served as Associate Editor at the Review of Economics and Statistics and the American Journal of Health Economics. The author of over one hundred peer-reviewed articles across economics, medicine, and health policy, Dr. Lakdawalla has been awarded the Garfield Prize, the Milken Institute Award for Distinguished Economic Research, and the International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research (ISPOR) Excellence in Research Methodology Award.
Darius Lakdawalla, PhD, is Quintiles Professor of Pharmaceutical Development and Regulatory Innovation, Professor of Pharmaceutical Economics and Public Policy, and Director of Research at the Leonard D. Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and
Economics at the University of Southern California. Dr. Lakdawalla is currently a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and an associate editor for The Journal of Health Economics. He previously served as Associate Editor at the Review of Economics and Statistics and the American Journal of Health Economics. The author of over one hundred peer-reviewed articles across economics, medicine, and health policy, Dr. Lakdawalla has been awarded the Garfield Prize, the Milken Institute Award for Distinguished Economic Research, and the International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research (ISPOR) Excellence in Research Methodology Award.
Author
University Professor and Provost EmeritusUniversity Professor and Provost Emeritus, University of Rochester
Director of Research at the Leonard D. Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and EconomicsDirector of Research at the Leonard D. Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics, University of Southern California
Content
Definitions
Preface
Chapter 1: Why We Need Cost-Effectiveness Analysis, How It Is Done, and Why It Needs Fixing
Chapter 2: Diminishing Returns...Everywhere
Chapter 3: How Uncertain Treatment Outcomes Affect Value
Chapter 4: The Total Value of Medical Interventions and the Tradeoff between Qol and Le
Chapter 5: The Consequences of Permanent Disability
Chapter 6: Multi Period Models
Chapter 7: In Search of Decision Thresholds
Chapter 8: Measuring the Risk Parameters
Chapter 9: Putting Together the Parts
Chapter 10: Transition Issues
Chapter 11: Consequences for Health Plans
Chapter 12: Welfare and Equity Implications of Grace
Chapter 13: Conclusions and Next Steps
References
Preface
Chapter 1: Why We Need Cost-Effectiveness Analysis, How It Is Done, and Why It Needs Fixing
Chapter 2: Diminishing Returns...Everywhere
Chapter 3: How Uncertain Treatment Outcomes Affect Value
Chapter 4: The Total Value of Medical Interventions and the Tradeoff between Qol and Le
Chapter 5: The Consequences of Permanent Disability
Chapter 6: Multi Period Models
Chapter 7: In Search of Decision Thresholds
Chapter 8: Measuring the Risk Parameters
Chapter 9: Putting Together the Parts
Chapter 10: Transition Issues
Chapter 11: Consequences for Health Plans
Chapter 12: Welfare and Equity Implications of Grace
Chapter 13: Conclusions and Next Steps
References