Suchergebnisse

Political economy report brings together results from tasks 1 and 2 of WP11 and further develops the economic, ethical and health policy analyses. The first part of this report offers a thorough micro-economic analysis of decrementally cost-effective interventions (d-CEIs) in order to identify their distinctive characteristics and their welfare properties. It focuses on one of the most central questions, namely the symmetry between willingness to accept and willingness to pay, and addresses the controversy on the slopes of the thresholds in the N-E and S-W quadrants. The second part consists of an inquiry into the ethics of d-CEIs. It questions the validity of the justification often used by policy-makers for not considering d-CEIs: their unethical nature. The third part analyses health policy in the making, by documenting HTA bodies' willingness to adopt d-CEIs whose cost-effectiveness has been scientifically established. The fourth part of this report presents the quantitative and qualitative results of the discrete choice experiment specifically designed for this research project.