Please answer the following question in essay format. In each case, use your answer as a vehicle for applying concepts and terminology that are covered in the Health Economics course, drawing from the required readings. You can also draw upon supplementary readings.

1. An insightful aphorism (articulated by Deborah Stone, and perhaps others) is that what decision makers choose to count, and how they count it, counts; i.e., has profound influence on how a problem (and potential solution) is sized-up. Using the content predominantly from readings below, provide a case that reifies (provides supporting evidence for) Stones' observation.

Required Readings:

Olsen Chapter 18

Gold, M. R., D. Stevenson, and D. G. Fryback. 2002. HALYs and QALYs and DALYs, oh my. Ann.Rev.Public Health 23, : 115-34.

Supplementary readings:

Global Burden of Disease Study 2013 Collaborators, Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 301 acute and chronic diseases and injuries in 188 countries, 1990-2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013, Lancet 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(15)60692-4.