Health Values and Prospect Theory

Diana Stratmann-Schoene and Thomas Klose
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Diana Stratmann-Schoene: Department of Health Economics, University of Ulm, Germany
Thomas Klose: Department of Health Economics, University of Ulm, Germany, thomas.klose@mathematik.uni-ulm.de

Medical Decision Making, 2001, vol. 21, issue 1, 57-59

Abstract: In a recent volume of Medical Decision Making, Treadwell and Lenert stated that under prospect theory, community members compared with patients underestimate the utility of health improvements. In this comment, the authors show that this statement holds only for a subset of possible preference functions. Furthermore, the authors provide arguments that, in general, the rater’s current health state is not the appropriate reference level if applying prospect theory to health valuations.

Keywords: prospect theory; health state valuation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2001
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DOI: 10.1177/0272989X0102100107

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