Faculty webinar – The development and use of the ICECAP tool with Professor Joanna Coast and Isabella Floredin

This webinar will focus on the development of capability measures for health and care decision making. The ICECAP measures have a life-course focus, with measures currently available for adults, older people and adults at the end of life. New measures for children and young people, and young people at the end of life being developed.

This session will begin by talking through the meaning of capability. It will then focus on the process of developing attributes for the measures using qualitative methods, it will use the new work on the measure for young people at the end of life as an example. It will then explore the development of value sets for measures, issues around validity, and the use of the measures for decision making. 

Professor Joanna Coast

Professor Joanna Coast has been an academic health economist for over 30 years. She is currently Professor in the Economics of Health and Care at the University of Bristol, and previously had a professorial role at the University of Birmingham. She is Senior Editor, Health Economics for Social Science and Medicine, and a non-executive director of the One Gloucestershire Integrated Care System. Jo’s key research focus is on issues of resource allocation in health service provision, which includes priority setting, the evaluation of service interventions and end of life care. She has particular expertise in measuring capability outcomes for health, wellbeing and care based on people’s lived experiences, as well as a methodological interest in the use of qualitative methods in health economics. Jo has published extensively across these research areas and received major grants from the Medical Research Council, the European Research Council and Wellcome. 

Isabella Floredin

Isabella Floredin undertook her PhD in Health Economics at the University of Bristol. Her thesis focused on the assessment of capability outcomes for young people and those close to them for use in economic evaluation of interventions at the end of life. She joined the Health Economics Bristol (HEB) team at the University of Bristol as a senior research associate in April 2023 and is currently working on elements from two studies. The first study, funded by Wellcome, involves validation work for the ICECAP capability wellbeing measures for children and young people. The second study involves work to explore the impact of interventions associated with the COVID-19 pandemic on the capabilities of children and young people and the factors associated with changes in their capability wellbeing during the first lockdown. 

Submit your questions for Joanna and Isabella to answer during the webinar.