Valuing the ICECAP Capability Index for Older People  

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Coast, Joanna ; Flynn, Terry N. ; Natarajan, Lucy ; Sproston, Kerry ; Lewis, Jane ; Louviere, Jordan J. ; Peters, Tim J.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Social Science & Medicine (www.elsevier.com/locate/sosscimed) vol. 67 no. 5 (Sep. 2008), page 874-882.
Topik: UK; Capability; Older People; Best-Worst Scalling; Outcome Measurement; ICECAP Instrument; Quality of Life (QoL)

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This paper reports the first application of the capabilities approach to the development and valuation of an instrument for use in the economic evaluation of health and social care interventions. The ICECAP index of capability for older people focuses on quality of life rather than health or other influences on quality of life, and is intended to be used in decision making across health and social care in the UK. The measure draws on previous qualitative work in which five conceptual attributes were develoed: attachment, security, role, enjoyment and control. This paper details the innovatie use within health economics of futher iterative qualitative work in the UK among 19 informants to refine lay terminology for each of the attributes and levels of attributes used in the eventual index. For the first time within quality of life measurement for economic evaluation, a best-worst scaling exercise has been used to estimate general population values 9albeit for the population of those aged 65+ years) for the levels of attributes, with values anchored at one for full capability and zero for no capability. Death was assumed to be a state in which there is no capability. The values obtained indicate that attachment is the attribute with greatest impact but all attributes contribute to the total estimation of capability. Values that were estimated are feasible for use in practical applications of the index to measure the impact of health and social care interventions.

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