Health: What Is It Worth?. Measures of Health Benefits

Content: 
Pergamon Titles of Related Interest, Page ii
Front Matter, Page iii
Copyright, Page iv
Contributors, Pages v-vi
Preface, Pages ix-x, Selma J. Mushkin, David W. Dunlop
Foreword, Pages xi-xii, Richard V. Kasius
Introduction, Pages 1-11
1 - Health Status Measures, Policy, and Biomedical Research, Pages 15-41, Milton M. Chen, James W. Bush
2 - An Approach to the Assessment of Long-Term Care, Pages 43-57, Ellen W. Jones, Barbara J. McNitt, Paul M. Densen
3 - The Social Value of Saving a Life, Pages 61-68, Nancy S. Dorfman
4 - Social Valuation of Life- and Health-Saving Activities by the Demand-Revealing Process, Pages 69-90, Edward H. Clarke
5 - The Willingness-to-Pay Criterion and Public Program Evaluation in Health, Pages 91-139, Joseph Lipscomb
6 - Issues in the Conceptualization and Measurement of Value Placed on Health, Pages 141-166, John E. Ware Jr., JoAnne Young
7 - Willingness to Pay for Probabilistic Improvements in Functional Health Status: A Psychological Perspective, Pages 167-200, Gregory W. Fischer
8 - Measuring Returns to Technical Innovation in Health Care: The Utility Theory Approach, Pages 203-218, S.Y. Wu
9 - Economics and Epidemiology: Application to Cancer, Pages 219-234, William Schulze, Shaul Ben-David, Thomas D. Crocker, Allen Kneese
10 - Allocation and Priority Setting in Research, Pages 237-245, Solomon Schneyer
11 - Returns to Biomedical Research in Chronic Diseases: A Case Study of Resource Allocation, Pages 247-271, David W. Dunlop
12 - The Relationship Between Children's Health and Intellectual Development, Pages 273-314, Linda N. Edwards, Michael Grossman
13 - Health Indexes for Health Assessments, Pages 315-338, Selma J. Mushkin
Bibliography, Pages 339-361
Index, Pages 363-372
Pergamon Policy Studies, Page ibc1