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The first HERU External Seminar of the Autumn 2018 programme will be delivered by Dr Philip Kinghorn, a Research Fellow in the Institute of Applied Health Research at the University of Birmingham.
Dr Kinghorn previously worked in HERU from 2010 to 2012. His research interests relate to the measurement and valuation of outcomes in economic evaluation. In particular, he is interested in the use of the capability approach within health economics.
The title of the presentation is: Methods for eliciting a monetary threshold for public spending on social care and public health: arbitrated deliberative versus individual citizen values.
Abstract: The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence endorse evaluative tools for social care which are broader in scope than health functioning. One such instrument is ICECAP-A, which assesses capability wellbeing. It is also widely recognised within health economics that public health is distinct in terms of the need for a broad evaluative space and greater focus on equity. Public deliberation has previously been used to establish a sufficient state of wellbeing (as defined by ICECAP-A). The objective of this work was to elicit a monetary threshold for an additional year of sufficient capability. Two valuation questions were used at a series of public workshops: Individual willingness to pay additional tax and Willingness to (re)allocate existing public funds. Representatives from each of the initial workshops were brought together at a consensus workshop, to reach a final view on the threshold value. The two valuation tasks were replicated within an online survey, so as to elicit non-deliberative values. Most participants expressed willingness to pay additional tax to support public health and social care services and willingness to pay additional tax implies a greater threshold value than the (re)allocation of existing public funds. Deliberation appeared to ‘drive up’ the values and the deliberative values are almost twice as high as non-deliberative values.
Work funded by the Medical Research Council [MR/N014790/1]
- Hosted by
- Professor Mandy Ryan
- Venue
- Rm1:029, Polwarth Building