Processing, Please Wait...
Description
Return to Event
Session Details
AM12: Quantifying and Valuing Health Inqeuality Impacts in Economic Evaluation
(
Event:
SMDM 42nd Annual Meeting: Virtual Meeting)
Oct 20, 2020 9:00AM - Oct 20, 2020 12:00PM
Session Type:
Short Course- PM 1/2 Day
Description
Background
The lack of formal analysis of health inequality impacts in health technology assessment and economic evaluation may hinder their influence on decision making. This course addresses that gap by teaching participants how to quantify health inequality impacts in economic evaluation. This course will teach participants how to: (i) use subgroup analysis within economic evaluation to describe a distribution of health with and without an intervention; (ii) calculate the level of inequality in the distribution of health; (iii) construct a health equity impact plane; (iv) combine total health impact and impact on health inequality into a single summary measure in terms of either societal welfare or health; (v) estimate and interpret equally distributed equivalent health. These skills are used to enable researchers to formally incorporate health inequality impacts into economic evaluation. They are used to estimate and communicate the extent and value of health inequality impacts to stakeholders and decision makers.
Course Type
Half Day
Course Level
Advanced
Format Requirements
The format for the course is a series of lectures with a guided practical exercise. Participants will require the use of a laptop installed with Microsoft Excel. This course assumes that participants have experience in using Excel and writing Excel formula
Description & Objectives
The lack of formal analysis of health inequality impacts in health technology assessment and economic evaluation may hinder their influence on decision making. This course addresses that gap by teaching participants how to quantify health inequality impacts in economic evaluation of health policies and interventions. An introduction will set the context for how and why impact on health inequality is central to allocation decisions in health. Participants will learn about common measures used to summarise the extent of inequality in a distribution of healthy life expectancy, including the slope index of inequality and the relative index of inequality. They will learn how to communicate the dual impacts of interventions on both average health and health inequality using the health equity impact plane. They will also learn how impacts on total health and health inequality can be combined in summary measures that value health inequality impacts in terms of either societal welfare or health. Participants will be taught about equally distributed equivalent health as a direct and simple way of communicating the impact of interventions on the distribution of health.
Objectives:
Participants will learn how and why health inequality impact is relevant to allocation decisions in health care.
They will learn how to use economic evaluation to estimate a distribution of health, and to estimate the change in the distribution of health attributable to an intervention or policy.
Participants will learn how to apply measures to quantify and summarise health inequality
Participants will learn how to construct a health equity impact plane
Participants will learn how to combine total health impact with health inequality impact into a single summary measure in terms of either societal welfare or health
Participants will understand how to calculate and interpret the equally distributed equivalent health.
Course Director
Susan Griffin, PhD
Centre for Health Economics, Centre for Health Economics, University of York, York, United Kingdom
Course Faculty
Fan Yang, PhD
Centre for Health Economics, University of York, York, United Kingdom
Register for this Session
Session Fees
Fee Type
Member Fee
Non-Member Fee
This session is free
Early:
$40.00
$40.00
Regular:
$40.00
$40.00
Late:
$40.00
$40.00
This session is free
Early:
$20.00
$20.00
Regular:
$20.00
$20.00
Late:
$20.00
$20.00