Work Package 9 explores the views of childhood populations, parents, the general adult population and decision-makers on whether children’s health gains ‘should’ be treated as equivalent to gains for adults. Standard approaches to economic evaluation assume ‘a QALY is a QALY’, but there is some research suggesting potential for differential social values of a QALY.

Outcomes from this work package will contribute to our understanding of social values in relation to QALYs for children.

The first of four papers has been accepted in Health Policy:

Making recommendations to subsidize new health technologies in Australia: A qualitative study of decision-makers’ perspectives on committee processes