Glossary: Valuing Individual Health Outcomes
2022
This glossary of terms supports the teaching pack on Valuing Individual Health Outcomes, in which students learn how to assign quantitative values to health outcomes at the individual level, including: expected utility theory, the axioms of this theory, distinguishing between preference-based measures of value and health-related quality of life outcomes, measuring utility using the standard gamble, the time trade-off, and the visual analog scale, and understanding the limitations of these measures. In addition to the glossary, materials include an instructor's note, videos, companion slides, an annotated bibliography, and sample exercises.
Glossary of Terms
- Adaptation
- Axioms of expected utility
- Descriptive decision analysis
- Directly-elicited utilities
- Expected utility
- Expected utility theory
- Health-related quality of life (HRQOL)
- Health status
- Indifference point
- Indirectly-elicited utilities
- Off-the-shelf utilities
- Ordinal scale properties
- Preference
- Preference function
- Preference weight
- Quality of life
- Standard gamble
- Time preference
- Time tradeoff
- Utility
- Utility function
- Utility scale
- Value
- Visual analog scale
- Well-being
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: Valuing Individual Health Outcomes. Center for Health Decision Science, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health 2022. http://repository.chds.hsph.harvard.edu/repository/2846