Who should value child and adolescent health? Views and recommendations from the adult public, international experts, and adolescents themselves

This is a webinar organised by the Economics of Children’s Health and Wellbeing SIG. When eliciting preferences for living in different health states normative decisions need to be made, including whose preferences should be elicited and which frame of reference should be used. While normative positions have been established for valuing adult health (i.e., adult preferences elicited, thinking about themselves in health states), this is not the case for children and adolescents. As these decisions are normative, understanding the viewpoints of multiple stakeholders and identifying consensual views, is one way of moving towards an informed choice on these issues. In this talk I present novel evidence from three studies exploring a range of people’s views on who should value child and adolescent health. The three studies represent unique, but complementary methodologies, and distinct stakeholder groups, including members of the adult public, international experts (including decision-maker representatives), and older adolescents (aged 15-17 years old). By triangulating findings across these studies, common patterns emerge on who stakeholders think should value child and adolescent health, and under what conditions. Further, normative and methodological issues without consensual viewpoints and/or that require further research and development are illuminated. This talk is likely to be of interest to health economists who conduct or make use of health state valuations, and those with an interest in child and adolescent health.

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