Key References

Here are a selection of references relating to the Capability Approach, health economics and methodologies relating to the ICECAP measures.

Coast J, Kinghorn P, Mitchell P (2015) “The development of capability measures in health economics: opportunities, challenges and progress”, The Patient: Patient-Centred Outcomes Research. 8, 119-126

Coast J, Smith R, Lorgelly P. (2008) Should the capability approach be applied in health economics? Health Economics 17:667-670.

Coast J, Smith RD, Lorgelly P (2008) Welfarism, extra-welfarism and capability: The Spread of ideas in health economics.  Social Science & Medicine 67:1190-1198

Flynn TN, Louviere JJ, Peters TJ, Coast J. (2007) Best-Worst Scaling: What it can do for health care research and how to do it. Journal of Health Economics 26(1):171-89

Mitchell PM, Al-Janabi H, Richardson J, et al. The relative impacts of disease on health status and capability wellbeing: a multi-country study. PloS one 2015;10(12)

Afentou N, Kinghorn P. A Systematic Review of the Feasibility and Psychometric Properties of the ICEpop CAPability Measure for Adults and Its Use So Far in Economic Evaluation. Value Health. 2020 Apr;23(4):515-526. 

Proud L, McLoughlin C, Kinghorn P. ICECAP-O, the current state of play: a systematic review of studies reporting the psychometric properties and use of the instrument over the decade since its publication. Qual Life Res. 2019 Jun;28(6):1429-1439.