Health status and health policy: quality of life in health care evaluation and resource allocation

Abstract

1: Health Status and Health Decisions. 2: A Strategy for Allocating Resources to Health Care. 3: Theoretical Foundations for Health-Related Quality of Life. 4: Concepts of Health-Related Quality of Life. 5: Types of Health-Related Quality of Life Assessments. 6: Assigning Values to Health States. 7: Selecting an Instrument for Primary Data Collection. 8: Developing a Strategy for Secondary Data Analysis. 9: Estimating Prognosis and Years of Healthy Life. 10: Estimating Direct and Indirect Health Care Costs. 11: Ranking Costs and Outcomes of Health Care Alternatives. 12: Preventing Disease and Promoting Health: Goals for the Nation. 13: Improving Health-Related Quality of Life Through Technology. 14: Improving Health Care Access. 15: The Limits of Rationality in Allocating Health Resources