Search Results - "Brouwer, W. B. F."

Instruments to assess quality of life in people with mental health problems: a systematic review and dimension analysis of generic, domain- and disease-specific instruments by van Krugten, F. C. W, Feskens, K, Busschbach, J. J. V, Hakkaart-van Roijen, L, Brouwer, W. B. F

“…The importance of economic evaluations of mental healthcare interventions is increasingly recognized. Despite the multitude of available quality of life…”
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The CarerQol Instrument: A New Instrument to Measure Care-Related Quality of Life of Informal Caregivers for Use in Economic Evaluations by Brouwer, W. B. F., van Exel, N. J. A., van Gorp, B., Redekop, W. K.

“…The societal perspective in economic evaluations dictates that costs and effects of informal care are included in the analyses. However, this incorporation…”
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The Mental Health Quality of Life Questionnaire (MHQoL): development and first psychometric evaluation of a new measure to assess quality of life in people with mental health problems by van Krugten, F. C. W., Busschbach, J. J. V., Versteegh, M. M., Hakkaart-van Roijen, L., Brouwer, W. B. F.

“…Purpose The purpose of this study was to develop and psychometrically evaluate a new quality of life measure for use in people with mental health problems—the…”
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Public preferences for policies promoting a healthy diet: a discrete choice experiment by Dieteren, C. M., Bonfrer, I., Brouwer, W. B. F., van Exel, J.

“…Background Worldwide obesity rates have nearly tripled over the past five decades. So far, policies to promote a healthier diet have been less intrusive than…”
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Do people desire to be healthier than other people? A short note on positional concerns for health by Wouters, S., van Exel, N. J. A., van de Donk, M., Rohde, K. I. M., Brouwer, W. B. F.

“…Contrary to traditional economic postulates, people do not only care about their absolute position but also about their relative position. However, empirical…”
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Are some QALYs more equal than others? by van de Wetering, E. J., van Exel, N. J. A., Rose, J. M., Hoefman, R. J., Brouwer, W. B. F.

“…Including societal preferences in allocation decisions is an important challenge for the health care sector. Here, we present results of a phased discrete…”
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Putting your money where your mouth is: Parents' valuation of good oral health of their children by Vermaire, J.H., van Exel, N.J.A., van Loveren, C., Brouwer, W.B.F.

“…The aim of this study was to investigate the parental willingness to invest in good oral health for their child in terms of money and time and to relate this…”
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Thirty down, only ten to go?! Awareness and influence of a 10-year time frame in TTO by van Nooten, F. E., Koolman, X., Busschbach, J. J. V., Brouwer, W. B. F.

“…Background Time trade-off (TTO) exercises typically present respondents with a limited time horizon, for example 10 years, thus implicitly considerably…”
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Patient and general public preferences for health states: A call to reconsider current guidelines by Versteegh, M.M., Brouwer, W.B.F.

“…In economic evaluations of health care interventions, benefits are often expressed in terms of Quality-Adjusted Life-Years (QALYs). The QALY comprises length…”
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“Everyone dies, so you might as well have fun!” Attitudes of Dutch youths about their health lifestyle by van Exel, N.J.A., de Graaf, G., Brouwer, W.B.F.

“…Most Western societies seem to have embarked on a runaway weight-gain train, equipped with too many accelerators and not enough brakes. Adolescents have been…”
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Piecing the jigsaw puzzle of adolescent happiness by van de Wetering, E.J., van Exel, N.J.A., Brouwer, W.B.F.

“…Happiness is increasingly recognized as a proxy for utility and therefore a valuable maximand for policy decisions. As a result many studies have investigated…”
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Looking back and moving forward: On the application of proportional shortfall in healthcare priority setting in the Netherlands by Reckers-Droog, V.T., van Exel, N.J.A., Brouwer, W.B.F.

“…•Proportional shortfall is used to operationalise the equity criterion in the Netherlands.•We describe the history and application, and examine support for…”
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Don’t forget about the future: The impact of including future costs on the cost-effectiveness of adult pneumococcal conjugate vaccination with PCV13 in the Netherlands by de Vries, L.M., Kellerborg, K.M., Brouwer, W.B.F., van Baal, P.H.M.

“…•Future costs are often omitted in cost-effectiveness analyses of vaccination.•Including future costs can indicate that vaccination strategies are…”
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Acceptable health and priority weighting: Discussing a reference-level approach using sufficientarian reasoning by Wouters, S., van Exel, N.J.A., Rohde, K.I.M., Vromen, J.J., Brouwer, W.B.F.

“…Health care systems are challenged in allocating scarce health care resources, which are typically insufficient to fulfil all health care wants and needs. One…”
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Measuring the affordability of medicines: Importance and challenges by Niëns, L.M, Brouwer, W.B.F

“…Abstract The issue of affordability of health care services remains high on the (health) policy agenda. Determining whether health care services are affordable…”
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Practical measurement of affordability: an application to medicines by NIËNS, L. M, VAN DE POEL, E, CAMERON, A, EWEN, M, LAING, R, BROUWER, Wbf

“…To develop two practical methods for measuring the affordability of medicines in developing countries. The proposed methods--catastrophic and impoverishment…”
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Balancing equity and efficiency in the Dutch basic benefits package using the principle of proportional shortfall by van de Wetering, E. J., Stolk, E. A., van Exel, N. J. A., Brouwer, W. B. F.

“…Economic evaluations are increasingly used to inform decisions regarding the allocation of scarce health care resources. To systematically incorporate societal…”
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Value for money: economic evaluation of two different caries prevention programmes compared with standard care in a randomized controlled trial by Vermaire, J H, van Loveren, C, Brouwer, W B F, Krol, M

“…A cost-effectiveness analysis was conducted during a 3-year randomized controlled clinical trial in a general dental practice in the Netherlands in which 230…”
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Are all health gains equally important? An exploration of acceptable health as a reference point in health care priority setting by Wouters, S, van Exel, N J A, Rohde, K I M, Brouwer, W B F

“…Accumulating evidence suggests that members of society prefer some QALY gains over others. In this paper, we explore the notion of acceptable health as a…”
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"Married with children" the influence of significant others in TTO exercises by van Nooten, F E, van Exel, N J A, Koolman, X, Brouwer, W B F

“…Which responder characteristics influence TTO scores remains underexplored. More research is needed in order to understand (differences in) TTO scores, but…”
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