健康风险和生命的价值
Daniel Bauer1, Darius Lakdawalla2, Julian Reif3
1University of Wisconsin-Madison.
概括
患病的成年人对挽救生命的治疗价值是健康人的两倍. 预防严重疾病的价值与轻度疾病的价值相等,影响医疗保健支出和预防投资决策.
科学领域:
- 卫生经济学 卫生经济学
- 生物统计学 生物统计学
- 公共卫生政策 公共卫生政策
背景情况:
- 评估健康改善的传统生命周期框架往往缺乏随机性和多重健康状态.
- 了解个人愿意为健康收益付出代价对于医疗保健的资源配置至关重要.
研究的目的:
- 将生命周期框架扩展到具有多个健康状态的随机设置.
- 估计不同并发症的成年人健康和寿命改善的价值.
- 分析对医疗保健配给和预防投资的影响.
主要方法:
- 开发了一个包含多个健康状态的随机生命周期框架.
- 使用了关于死亡率,生活质量,劳动收入和医疗支出的数据.
- 将框架应用于具有不同并发性概况的成年人群.
主要成果:
- 与健康的成年人相比,患病的成年人愿意为减少死亡风险支付每年调整质量 (QALY) 的费用几乎是健康成年人的两倍.
- 降低严重疾病风险的价值与轻度疾病的价值相美.
- 这些发现解释了反对统一的医疗保健配给门和较低的投资预防与治疗的反对.
结论:
- 个人的健康状况显著影响健康和长寿改善的估值.
- 需要对医疗保健评估采取细微的方法,考虑并发症和风险感知.
- 结果为医疗保健资源分配,治疗优先级和预防性护理投资的政策提供信息.
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