A5. Briefly summarise: The aims and objectives: project’s (this must be in language comprehensible to a lay person) To improve decision-making about funding different health care programmes health economists aim to measure and compare the benefits of different health care treatments. These benefits are often measured by asking the general public their views about the desirability of different health state descriptions. Health economists often use to measure desire for ‘choice tasks’ peoples’ different health state descriptions. These choice tasks are methods such as the the and the ‘Visual Analogue Scale’, ‘Time Trade Off’ ‘Standard Gamble’. During choice tasks people are presented with a health outcome and asked a series of questions. For example, in the time trade off participants decide between living a certain number of years in than Full or a lesser ‘less Health’ number of years in By discovering how many years people are ‘Full Health’. willing to health economists can infer the desirability of different ‘sacrifice’, health outcomes. Some research does exist which explores the thought processes people have in completing these choice tasks. For example, Baker and Robinson (2004) presented respondents with health state descriptions related to hypertension and asked them to value these using a technique called standard gamble; and Spencer (2001) explored issues relating to the use of both standard gamble and time-trade off techniques in health state
A5. Briefly summarise: The project’s aims and objectives: (this must be in language comprehensible to a lay person) To improve decision-making about funding different health care programmes health economists aim to measure and compare the benefits of different health care treatments. These benefits are often measured by asking the general public their views about the desirability of different health state descriptions. Health economists often use ‘choice tasks’ to measure peoples’ desire for different health state descriptions. These choice tasks are methods such as the ‘Visual Analogue Scale’, the ‘Time Trade Off’ and the ‘Standard Gamble’. During choice tasks people are presented with a health outcome and asked a series of questions. For example, in the time trade off participants decide between living a certain number of years in ‘less than Full Health’ or a lesser number of years in ‘Full Health’. By discovering how many years people are willing to ‘sacrifice’, health economists can infer the desirability of different health outcomes. Some research does exist which explores the thought processes people have in completing these choice tasks. For example, Baker and Robinson (2004) presented respondents with health state descriptions related to hypertension and asked them to value these using a technique called standard gamble; and Spencer (2001) explored issues relating to the use of both standard gamble and time-trade off techniques in health state
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