Session: The valid societal perspective: What should be included?

Room: Helsinki Hall
Time: Fri 08:30 AM-09:45 AM

The valid societal perspective: What should be included?

Chair: Guillem López-Casasnovas (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)

Session Description

Adopting a social perspective in health care economic evaluations is recommend although practical guidelines often prescribe a health care perspective (Johannesson et al., 2009). Crucial and yet unanswered question is: what are the limits of the societal perspective? To state it differently, should everything that people value be included? This session aims to present various case studies to discuss this question.



Session Organizer: Bernard van den Berg (University of York)

Presentations

  1. The societal perspective in the evaluation of public health programmes
    Presenter: Mike Drummond (University of York)
  2. I Don’t Smoke But Why Should I Be a Subject in the Evaluation of Smoking Cessation Programmes?
    Presenter: Marta Trapero-Bertran (Brunel University)
  3. Individual responsibility and health-risk behaviour: A contingent valuation study from the ex ante societal perspective
    Presenter: Bernard van den Berg (University of York)

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