A Method for Comparing Health Inequality Impact Magnitudes, with an Illustration for Hypothetical Treatments of 1336 Diseases
Health inequality impacts can be compared using the change in the total predicted quality-adjusted life-year gap between the least and most socially disadvantaged groups as a proportion of the total health opportunity cost.
Authors
- Ieva Skarda (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0866-2936)
- Sundar Venkatesh (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1906-8668)
- Ole Frithjof Norheim (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5748-5956)
- Mike Paulden (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0381-5980)
- Tim Doran
- Owen O’Donnell
- Richard Cookson
Institutions
- University of Alberta (CA)
- National University of Singapore (SG)
- National University Health System (SG)
- Harvard Global Health Institute (US)
- University of York (GB)
- Erasmus University Rotterdam (NL)
Publication Details
- Journal
- PharmacoEconomics
- Published
- 2026-01-14
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s40273-025-01583-z
- Primary Topic
- Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00