Glossary: Population Health Outcomes
2022
This glossary of terms supports the teaching pack on Population Health Outcomes, in which students learn how to describe outcomes at a population level using quality adjusted life years (QALYs), including how to calculate QALYs, the assumptions underlying them, how to derive QALYs using indirect utility measures, and what are some of the ethical criticisms of QALYs. In addition to the glossary, materials include an instructor's note, videos, companion slides, an annotated bibliography, and sample exercises.
Glossary of Terms
- Benefits
- Certainty equivalent
- EuroQol 5D (EQ-5D)
- Health-adjusted life expectancy (HALE)
- Health utilities index (HUI)
- Healthy-years equivalent (HYE)
- Indirect utilities
- Multi-attribute utility instrument (MAUI)
- Normative theory
- Normative theory of social choice
- Quality-adjusted life expectancy (QALE)
- Quality-adjusted life year (QALY)
- Revealed preference
- Risk averse
- Risk neutral
- Risk seeking
- SF-6D
- Social utility function
- Value of statistical life (VSL)
- Willingness to accept (WTA)
- Willingness to pay (WTP)
This teaching pack was developed by Sue J. Goldie and Eve Wittenberg at the Center for Health Decision Science, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. The multimedia components were developed as part of a series of pilots in the CHDS Media Hub, led by Jake Waxman, where media-based pedagogy experiments contribute to new ways of thinking about short form content.
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Glossary. Teaching Pack: Population Health Outcomes. Center for Health Decision Science, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health 2022. http://repository.chds.hsph.harvard.edu/repository/2863