Health Status and Health Policy: Quality of Life in Health Care Evaluation and Resource Allocation

by Donald L. Patrick and Pennifer Erickson

This practical work provides a systematic guide to state-of-the-art development and application of health status and quality-of-life measures for health care policy and research. It explains how to allocate health resources by comparing costs and outcomes of alternative health policies to identify those with greatest benefit in relation to cost. The book outlines how to collect and organize data to calculate the cost per year of healthy life gained...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195050274
• ISBN13: 9780195050271
• Release Date: February 1993
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 504 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 6.5" x 9.5"