Valuing Health - The Generalized and Risk-Adjusted Cost-Effectiveness (Grace) Model

Valuing Health uses the generalized risk-adjusted cost-effectiveness (GRACE) model to demonstrate the economic value of improving the quality of life for individuals with disability or severe illness.

About the author

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.

Summary

Valuing Health uses the generalized risk-adjusted cost-effectiveness (GRACE) model to demonstrate the economic value of improving the quality of life for individuals with disability or severe illness.

Product details

• Authors: Darius N. Lakdawalla, Darius N. (Director of Research at the Leonard D. Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics Lakdawalla, PHELPS, Charles E. Phelps, Charles E. (University Professor and Provo Phelps, Charles E. (University Professor and Provost Emeritus Phelps, Phelps Charles E.
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 04.01.2024
• EAN: 9780197686287
• ISBN: 978-0-19-768628-7
• No. of pages: 322
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > General, dictionaries; HEALTH & FITNESS / Health Care Issues, MEDICAL / Public Health, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, Health economics, MEDICAL / Psychiatry / Psychopharmacology, Personal & public health, Political science & theory, Psychopharmacology, Political science and theory, Personal and public health / health education