Funded Research Project

Project Title: Developing methods for benefit measurement in health related economic analyses and their use in selecting public health promotional programs*

Chief Investigator(s): Professor Jeff Richardson; (Monash University) Dr R Borland; Professor RA Cummins; Professor HE Herrman; Associate Professor Ros Hurworth, (University of Melbourne); Prof BA Swinburn; Associate Professor E Vos

Funded by: ARC Discovery Project grant 2007–2009

Project Summary: The program involves the creation, validation and use of a suite of instruments for evaluating outcomes of health promotional programs, including adult and childhood obesity, depression and smoking ‑ areas that are universally recognised as being of importance for the Australian community. The program will provide multiple scoring algorithms for each of the instruments in order to test the sensitivity of results to assumptions made about social values, and will produce Australian estimates of the person trade‑off weights used in the Australian and Victorian Burden of Disease studies (which presently use Dutch PTO weights).

* Administered by Monash University