Mónica Hernández Alava
PhD
Population Health, School of Medicine and Population Health
Professor in Health Econometrics
+44 114 222 0736
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Population Health, School of Medicine and Population Health
Regent Court (ScHARR)
30 Regent Street
Sheffield
S1 4DA
- Profile
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I joined ScHARR from the Department of Economics in August 2009. Previously I was a lecturer in the Department of Economics at the University of Birmingham. I obtained a PhD, MSc in Economics and BSc in Business Economics from the University of Leicester. I am also a research associate at the Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of Essex.
- Research interests
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My main research interests lie in microeconometrics, the analysis of micro level data on the economic behaviour of individuals. I am also interested in more general model and methods development to analyse individual level data showing nonstandard characteristics. Recent examples include analysis of health state utility data, the economics of illicit behaviour, the dynamics of children developmental outcomes and applications to individuals’ decisions to participate in welfare programmes.
Current projects
Understanding Society’s Biomarker Data Project Fellowship
- Publications
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Featured publications
Journal articles
- Mapping between EQ-5D-3L and EQ-5D-5L: A survey experiment on the validity of multi-instrument data. Health Economics. View this article in WRRO
- An international comparison of EQ-5D-5L and EQ-5D-3L for use in cost-effectiveness analysis. Value in Health, 24(4), 568-574. View this article in WRRO
- View this article in WRRO EQ5DMAP: a command for mapping between EQ-5D-3L and EQ-5D-5L. The Stata journal, 18(2), 395-415.
- Development of Methods for the Mapping of Utilities Using Mixture Models: Mapping the AQLQ-S to the EQ-5D-5L and the HUI3 in Patients with Asthma. Value in Health, 21(6), 748-757. View this article in WRRO
- EQ-5D-5L versus EQ-5D-3L: The Impact on Cost-Effectiveness in the United Kingdom. Value in Health, 21(1), 49-56. View this article in WRRO
- The effects of breastfeeding on childhood BMI: a propensity score matching approach. Journal of Public Health, 39(4), e152-e160. View this article in WRRO
- Econometric modelling of multiple self-reports of health states: The switch from EQ-5D-3L to EQ-5D-5L in evaluating drug therapies for rheumatoid arthritis. Journal of Health Economics, 55, 139-152. View this article in WRRO
- Children’s Development and Parental Input: Evidence From the UK Millennium Cohort Study. Demography, 54(2), 485-511. View this article in WRRO
- Mapping to Estimate Health-State Utility from Non–Preference-Based Outcome Measures: An ISPOR Good Practices for Outcomes Research Task Force Report. Value in Health, 20(1), 18-27. View this article in WRRO
- Fitting Adjusted Limited Dependent Variable Mixture Models to EQ-5D. The Stata Journal: Promoting communications on statistics and Stata, 15(3), 737-750. View this article in WRRO
- A comparison of direct and indirect methods for the estimation of health utilities from clinical outcomes.. Med Decis Making, 34(7), 919-930.
- The relationship between EQ-5D, HAQ and pain in patients with rheumatoid arthritis.. Rheumatology (Oxford), 52(5), 944-950. View this article in WRRO
- Common scale valuations across different preference-based measures: estimation using rank data.. Med Decis Making, 33(6), 839-852.
- Tails from the peak district: adjusted limited dependent variable mixture models of EQ-5D questionnaire health state utility values.. Value Health, 15(3), 550-561.
- Catalogues of EQ-5D-3L health-related quality of life scores for 199 chronic conditions and health risks for use in the UK and the USA. PharmacoEconomics.
- Does EQ-5D Tell the whole story? Statistical methods for comparing the thematic coverage of clinical and generic outcome measures, with application to breast cancer. Value in Health.
- Mapping clinical outcomes to generic preference-based outcome measures: development and comparison of methods. Health Technology Assessment, 24(34), 1-68. View this article in WRRO
Chapters
- From Clinical Outcomes to Health Utilities: The Role of Mapping to Bridge the Evidence Gap In Hamilton J (Ed.), Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Economics and Finance. OUP View this article in WRRO
All publications
Journal articles
- The prevalence and determinants of unmet healthcare needs in Bulgaria. PLOS ONE, 19(10), e0312475-e0312475.
- The PHEM-B toolbox of methods for incorporating the influences on behaviour into public health economic models. BMC Public Health, 24(1). View this article in WRRO
- Unpaid caring and heath-related quality of life: longitudinal analysis of understanding society (the UK household longitudinal survey). Value in Health. View this article in WRRO
- How is alcohol consumption and heavy episodic drinking spread across different types of drinking occasion in Great Britain: An event-level latent class analysis. International Journal of Drug Policy, 127. View this article in WRRO
- The trajectory of a range of commonly captured symptoms with standard care in people with kidney failure receiving haemodialysis: consideration for clinical trial design. BMC Nephrology, 24(1). View this article in WRRO
- Change and stability in british drinking practices and culture between 2009 and 2019: a longitudinal latent class analysis of drinking occasions.. SSM - Population Health. View this article in WRRO
- Evaluating the effects of minimum unit pricing in Scotland on the prevalence of harmful drinking: a controlled interrupted time series analysis. Public Health, 220, 43-49.
- #5510 CKD-ASSOCIATED PRURITUS SEVERITY AND ITS ASSOCIATION WITH BODY DISTRIBUTION AND EQ-5D HEALTH-RELATED QUALITY OF LIFE IN HAEMODIALYSIS PATIENTS. Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation, 38(Supplement_1).
- Guidance on the use of complex systems models for economic evaluations of public health interventions. Health Economics.
- Diagnosis and management of vascular Ehlers-Danlos syndrome: experience of the UK national diagnostic service, Sheffield. European Journal of Human Genetics.
- Situated drinking: the association between eating and alcohol consumption in Great Britain. Nordic Studies on Alcohol and Drugs.
- A model-based economic analysis of the CFHealthHub intervention to support adherence to inhaled medications for people with cystic fibrosis in the UK. International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care, 39(1).
- Estimating the relationship between EQ-5D-5L and EQ-5D-3L: results from a UK population study. PharmacoEconomics, 41(2), 199-207.
- Correction to: Mapping the EORTC QLQ-C30 to EQ-5D-3L in patients with breast cancer. BMC Cancer, 22(1).
- The distribution of alcohol consumption and heavy episodic drinking across British drinking occasions in 2019: a cross-sectional, latent, class analysis of event-level drinking diary data.. Lancet, 400 Suppl 1, S50.
- Strategies to cut down drinking, alcohol consumption, and usual drinking frequency : evidence from a British online market research survey. Social Science & Medicine, 310. View this article in WRRO
- Mapping between EQ-5D-3L and EQ-5D-5L: A survey experiment on the validity of multi-instrument data. Health Economics. View this article in WRRO
- An intervention to support adherence to inhaled medication in adults with cystic fibrosis : the ACtiF research programme including RCT. Programme Grants for Applied Research, 9(11), 1-146. View this article in WRRO
- Understanding long‐term trends in smoking in England, 1972‐2019 : an age‐period‐cohort approach. Addiction. View this article in WRRO
- An international comparison of EQ-5D-5L and EQ-5D-3L for use in cost-effectiveness analysis. Value in Health, 24(4), 568-574. View this article in WRRO
- Mapping from visual acuity to EQ-5D, EQ-5D with vision bolt-on, and VFQ-UI in patients with macular edema in the LEAVO trial. Value in Health. View this article in WRRO
- The EQ-5D-5L value set for England: Findings of a quality assurance program. Value in Health. View this article in WRRO
- Mapping EQ-5D-3L from the knee injury and osteoarthritis outcome score (KOOS). Quality of Life Research. View this article in WRRO
- Mapping the FACT-B Instrument to EQ-5D-3L in Patients with Breast Cancer Using Adjusted Limited Dependent Variable Mixture Models versus Response Mapping. Value in Health. View this article in WRRO
- The Impact of Moving from EQ-5D-3L to -5L in NICE Technology Appraisals. PharmacoEconomics. View this article in WRRO
- View this article in WRRO EQ5DMAP: a command for mapping between EQ-5D-3L and EQ-5D-5L. The Stata journal, 18(2), 395-415.
- Development of Methods for the Mapping of Utilities Using Mixture Models: Mapping the AQLQ-S to the EQ-5D-5L and the HUI3 in Patients with Asthma. Value in Health, 21(6), 748-757. View this article in WRRO
- Family lifestyle dynamics and childhood obesity: evidence from the millennium cohort study. BMC Public Health, 18, 500-500. View this article in WRRO
- A Command for Fitting Mixture Regression Models for Bounded Dependent Variables Using the Beta Distribution. The Stata Journal: Promoting communications on statistics and Stata, 18(1), 51-75. View this article in WRRO
- EQ-5D-5L versus EQ-5D-3L: The Impact on Cost-Effectiveness in the United Kingdom. Value in Health, 21(1), 49-56. View this article in WRRO
- The effects of breastfeeding on childhood BMI: a propensity score matching approach. Journal of Public Health, 39(4), e152-e160. View this article in WRRO
- Econometric modelling of multiple self-reports of health states: The switch from EQ-5D-3L to EQ-5D-5L in evaluating drug therapies for rheumatoid arthritis. Journal of Health Economics, 55, 139-152. View this article in WRRO
- The Cost-effectiveness of Sequences of Biological Disease-modifying Antirheumatic Drug Treatment in England for Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis Who Can Tolerate Methotrexate. Journal of Rheumatology, 44(7), 973-980. View this article in WRRO
- Children’s Development and Parental Input: Evidence From the UK Millennium Cohort Study. Demography, 54(2), 485-511. View this article in WRRO
- Predicting Productivity Losses from Health-Related Quality of Life Using Patient Data.. Applied Health Economics and Health Policy. View this article in WRRO
- Mapping to Estimate Health-State Utility from Non–Preference-Based Outcome Measures: An ISPOR Good Practices for Outcomes Research Task Force Report. Value in Health, 20(1), 18-27. View this article in WRRO
- Health State Preference Weights for the Glasgow Outcome Scale Following Traumatic Brain Injury: A Systematic Review and Mapping Study.. Value in health : the journal of the International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research, 20(1), 141-151. View this article in WRRO
- Corrigendum: Adalimumab, etanercept, infliximab, certolizumab pegol, golimumab, tocilizumab and abatacept for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis not previously treated with disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs and after the failure of conventional disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs only: systematic review and economic evaluation. Health Technology Assessment, 20(35), 611-614.
- Estimating informal care inputs associated with EQ-5D for use in economic evaluation. The European Journal of Health Economics, 17(6), 733-744. View this article in WRRO
- Adalimumab, etanercept, infliximab, certolizumab pegol, golimumab, tocilizumab and abatacept for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis not previously treated with disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs and after the failure of conventional disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs only: systematic review and economic evaluation. Health Technology Assessment, 20(35), 1-610. View this article in WRRO
- Bicop: A Command for Fitting Bivariate Ordinal Regressions with Residual Dependence Characterized by a Copula Function and Normal Mixture Marginals. The Stata Journal, 16(1), 159-184. View this article in WRRO
- Modeling Health State Utility Values in Ankylosing Spondylitis: Comparisons of Direct and Indirect Methods. Value in Health, 18(4), 425-431.
- Fitting Adjusted Limited Dependent Variable Mixture Models to EQ-5D. The Stata Journal: Promoting communications on statistics and Stata, 15(3), 737-750. View this article in WRRO
- Cost-effectiveness of treatment strategies using combination disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drugs and glucocorticoids in early rheumatoid arthritis. Rheumatology, 53(10), 1773-1777.
- A comparison of direct and indirect methods for the estimation of health utilities from clinical outcomes.. Med Decis Making, 34(7), 919-930.
- Modelling the relationship between the WOMAC Osteoarthritis Index and EQ-5D.. Health Qual Life Outcomes, 12, 37. View this article in WRRO
- Percutaneous vertebroplasty and percutaneous balloon kyphoplasty for the treatment of osteoporotic vertebral fractures: a systematic review and cost-effectiveness analysis.. Health Technol Assess, 18(17), 1-290.
- Use of generic and condition-specific measures of health-related quality of life in NICE decision-making: a systematic review, statistical modelling and survey.. Health Technol Assess, 18(9), 1-224. View this article in WRRO
- MODELLING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE WO MAC OSTEOARTHRITIS INDEX AND EQ-5D. VALUE IN HEALTH, 16(7), A606-A606.
- Good practice guidelines for the use of statistical regression models in economic evaluations.. Pharmacoeconomics, 31(8), 643-652.
- The relationship between EQ-5D, HAQ and pain in patients with rheumatoid arthritis.. Rheumatology (Oxford), 52(5), 944-950. View this article in WRRO
- Common scale valuations across different preference-based measures: estimation using rank data.. Med Decis Making, 33(6), 839-852.
- Tails from the peak district: adjusted limited dependent variable mixture models of EQ-5D questionnaire health state utility values.. Value Health, 15(3), 550-561.
- What is the clinical effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of using drugs in treating obese patients in primary care? A systematic review.. Health Technol Assess, 16(5), iii-195.
- Valuing states from multiple measures on the same visual analogue sale: A feasibility study. Health Economics, 21(6), 715-729.
- MODELLING EQ-5D HEALTH STATE VALUES: DEVELOPING A LIMITED DEPENDENT VARIABLE, MIXTURE MODELING APPROACH. VALUE IN HEALTH, 14(7), A242-A242.
- Primary angioplasty versus thrombolysis for acute ST-elevation myocardial infarction: an economic analysis of the National Infarct Angioplasty project.. Heart, 96(9), 668-672.
- The welfare cost of means-testing: Pensioner participation in income support. J APPL ECONOM, 22(3), 581-598. View this article in WRRO
- Measurement error in models of welfare participation. J PUBLIC ECON, 91(1-2), 327-341.
- The take-up of multiple means-tested benefits by British pensioners: Evidence from the family resources survey. Fiscal Studies, 25(3), 279-303.
- A continuous time approach to cross country convergence. Contributions to Economics, 19-36.
- Solitary drinkers in Great Britain: How do their sociodemographic characteristics, consumption patterns, and drinking occasions differ from those who drink with others?. Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs.
- Relationship Between Standardized Measures of Chronic Kidney Disease-associated Pruritus Intensity and Health-related Quality of Life Measured with the EQ-5D Questionnaire: A Mapping Study. Acta Dermato-Venereologica, 103, adv11604-adv11604.
- Catalogues of EQ-5D-3L health-related quality of life scores for 199 chronic conditions and health risks for use in the UK and the USA. PharmacoEconomics.
- Enabling QALY estimation in mental health trials and care settings: mapping from the PHQ-9 and GAD-7 to the ReQoL-UI or EQ-5D-5L using mixture models. Quality of Life Research.
- Does EQ-5D Tell the whole story? Statistical methods for comparing the thematic coverage of clinical and generic outcome measures, with application to breast cancer. Value in Health.
- Cost Effectiveness of Difelikefalin Compared to Standard Care for Treating Chronic Kidney Disease Associated Pruritus (CKD-aP) in People with Kidney Failure Receiving Haemodialysis. PharmacoEconomics.
- Catalogue of EQ-5D-3L Health-Related Quality of Life Scores for 199 Chronic Conditions and Health Risks in Denmark. MDM Policy & Practice.
- Mapping clinical outcomes to generic preference-based outcome measures: development and comparison of methods. Health Technology Assessment, 24(34), 1-68. View this article in WRRO
- Mapping the EORTC QLQ-C30 to EQ-5D-3L in patients with breast cancer. BMC Cancer.
- The relationship between chronic kidney disease associated pruritus and health-related quality of life: a systematic review. Clinical Kidney Journal.
- MEASURING QUALITY OF LIFE OF PATIENTS WITH AXIAL SPONDYLOARTHRITIS FOR ECONOMIC EVALUATION. RMD Open.
Chapters
- From Clinical Outcomes to Health Utilities: The Role of Mapping to Bridge the Evidence Gap In Hamilton J (Ed.), Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Economics and Finance. OUP View this article in WRRO
Conference proceedings papers
- Cost-Effectiveness of Difelikefalin compared to Standard Care for treating Chronic Kidney Disease Associated Pruritus (CKD-aP). MEDICAL DECISION MAKING, Vol. 44(2) (pp NP160-NP160)
- OP54 Change and stability in British adults’ drinking practices and culture between 2009 and 2019: A longitudinal latent class analysis. SSM Annual Scientific Meeting
- CKD-ASSOCIATED PRURITUS SEVERITY AND ITS ASSOCIATION WITH BODY DISTRIBUTION AND EQ-5D HEALTH-RELATED QUALITY OF LIFE IN HAEMODIALYSIS PATIENTS. NEPHROLOGY DIALYSIS TRANSPLANTATION, Vol. 38 (pp I760-I760)
- COMBINING CAUSAL INFERENCE AND WITHIN-TRIAL ECONOMIC EVALUATION METHODS TO ASSESS THE COST-EFFECTIVENESS OF A MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE USING REAL-WORLD DATA: THE QUASI-EXPERIMENTAL ADAPT STUDY. VALUE IN HEALTH, Vol. 26(12) (pp S87-S87)
- A FRAMEWORK FOR EXPERT ELICITATION RELATED TO COUNTERFACTUAL VALUES: A CASE STUDY OF ELICITATION TO INFORM SUBGROUP ANALYSES IN CLINICAL TRIALS. VALUE IN HEALTH, Vol. 25(1) (pp S274-S274)
- SYMPTOM IMPROVEMENT WITH STANDARD CARE IN PEOPLE RECEIVING HAEMODIALYSIS ACROSS A RANGE OF SYMPTOMS IN THE POS-S RENAL: CONSIDERATION FOR CLINICAL PRACTICE AND TRIAL DESIGN. NEPHROLOGY DIALYSIS TRANSPLANTATION, Vol. 37 (pp I619-I620)
- A FRAMEWORK FOR EXPERT ELICITATION TO INFORM SUBGROUP ANALYSES IN CLINICAL TRIALS. MEDICAL DECISION MAKING, Vol. 40(5) (pp E410-E411)
- AN EXPLORATION OF THE TRADE-OFF BETWEEN FALSE NEGATIVES AND FALSE POSITIVES WHEN IDENTIFYING SUBGROUP EFFECTS. MEDICAL DECISION MAKING, Vol. 40(1) (pp E266-E267)
- PSS25 Mapping from visual acuity to utility in patients with macular oedema due to central retinal vein occlusion using data from the LEAVO trial. Value in Health, Vol. 22(Suppl. 3) (pp S891-S891). Copenhagen, Denmark, 2 November 2019 - 6 November 2019. View this article in WRRO
- MAPPING FROM VISUAL ACUITY TO UTILITY IN PATIENTS WITH MACULAR OEDEMA DUE TO CENTRAL RETINAL VEIN OCCLUSION USING DATA FROM THE LEAVO TRIAL. VALUE IN HEALTH, Vol. 22 (pp S891-S891)
- PMS41 The Cost-Effectiveness of Biologic Dmards in Patients With Severe or Mild-To-Severe Rheumatoid Arthritis After Conventional Dmards. Value in Health, Vol. 17(7) (pp a380)
Reports
- Copula-based modelling of self-reported health states: An application to the use of EQ-5D-3L and EQ-5D-5L in evaluating drug therapies for rheumatic disease
Scholarly editions
- The simultaneous valuation of states from multiple instruments using ranking and VAS data: methods and preliminary results.
Posters
- POSB421 A Framework for Expert Elicitation Related to Counterfactual Values: A Case Study of Elicitation to Inform Subgroup Analyses in Clinical Trials..
- Examining productivity losses associated with health related quality of life using patient data (2014).
Working papers
- View this article in WRRO What you don't see can't hurt you? Panel data analysis and the dynamics of unobservable factors.
- The welfare cost of means-testing: pensioner participation in income support.
- The Welfare Cost of Means-Testing: Pensioner Participation in Income Support.
- The Welfare Cost of Means-Testing: Pensioner Participation in Income Support.
Datasets
Presentations
- OP0078 MAPPING FROM THE ANKYLOSING SPONDYLITIS DISEASE ACTIVITY SCORE (ASDAS) TO EQ5D IN PATIENTS WITH AXIAL SPONDYLOARTHRITIS.
Preprints
- Estimating EQ-5D-5L Utility Scores from the KDQoL-36 in Patients Undergoing Haemodialysis: A Mapping Algorithm for Economic Evaluation, Research Square Platform LLC.
- Combining causal inference and within-trial economic evaluation methods to assess comparative cost-effectiveness using real-world data: a tutorial with recommendations based on the quasi-experimental ADAPT study of a redesigned mental health service.
- Alcohol consumption and heavy episodic drinking within different types of drinking occasion in Great Britain: An event-level latent class analysis, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.
- Teaching interests
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I am interested in supervising research students in a broad range of topics in the area of microeconometric analysis.
- Professional activities and memberships
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- Adjunct Associate Professor, Aalborg University, Denmark
- Visiting research associate at the Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of Essex.