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Health Valuation: Demonstrating the Value of Health and Lifespan

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Acknowledgements

Elly Stolk’s contribution to writing up this paper was supported by the EuroQol research foundation [project 2013300]. The authors gratefully acknowledge the administrative support for the preparation of this paper from the International Academy of Health Preference Research (IAHPR). Drs. Craig and Brown serve on the Board of the IAHPR Foundation. Dr. Craig is also a founding co-chair of the Health Preference Research special interest group at the International Society of Quality of Life Research.

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  1. EuroQol Office, Marten Meesweg 107, 3068 AV, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

    Elly A. Stolk

  2. Department of Economics, University of South Florida, 4202 East Fowler Avenue, Tampa, FL, USA

    Benjamin M. Craig

  3. CHERE—Centre for Health Economics and Research Evaluation, University of Technology Sydney, PO Box 123 Broadway, Sydney, NSW, 2007, Australia

    Brendan Mulhern

  4. Washington University in St. Louis, Brown School, Campus Box 1196, One Brookings Drive, St. Louis, Missouri, 63130, USA

    Derek S. Brown

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Stolk, E.A., Craig, B.M., Mulhern, B. et al. Health Valuation: Demonstrating the Value of Health and Lifespan. Patient 10, 515–517 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40271-017-0252-x

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