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Social preferences for health states: An empirical evaluation of three measurement techniques

Abstract

Health state preferences measured on the general public provide useful information in their own right as well as being necessary data for the application of many health status index models. But, how should the preferences be measured? This paper reports the results of an empirical investigation in which three measurement techniques are applied to several samples of the general public to measure the social preferences for ten different health …

Authors

Torrance GW

Journal

Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Vol. 10, No. 3, pp. 129–136

Publisher

Elsevier

Publication Date

January 1976

DOI

10.1016/0038-0121(76)90036-7

ISSN

0038-0121