9 June 2026

What is your health worth? PROMs, EQ-5D & economic evaluation

EQ-5D and PROMs
Banner with purple background, main title 'What is your health worth?' and two circular headshots beneath.

How do we actually measure health? And in health economics, what is the difference between measuring health and assigning a value to it? 

Grace Hampson is joined by David Mott, Associate Director at OHE, as well as Hannah Hussain, an Economist at OHE, both part of OHE’s Measuring and Valuing Outcomes team. They’ll unpack how health economists measure and value health, and why getting this right matters for healthcare decision-making. 

They’ll discuss

  • What patient reported outcome measures (PROMs) are, and why a small subset of them do the heavy lifting in economic evaluation  
  • Why NICE recommends the EQ-5D-5L, what this measure does well, and where it falls short  
  • The challenge of measuring health in people who can’t self-report — including children, people with dementia, and those in severe stages of illness  
  • Hannah’s award-winning PhD research on combining self-report and proxy data to get a fuller picture of health in people living with dementia

Speakers

Listen to the episode

Never miss an episode

Subscribe to our mailing list to receive the latest episode