Kaspar Meili

I work as a PhD student in the CALY project. Anna Månsdotter is my main supervisor and Jan Hjelte are my co-supervisors. The CALY project is a Swedish initiative to develop a new measure for welfare and quality-of-life targeted at economic evaluations and monitoring.

The main characteristics of CALYs are:

• Take into account the most important areas of life - more than just health - such as personal economy, social relations...
• Philosophically based on Amartya Sens capability approach, where welfare is defined in terms of capabilities that people have. CALYs hence respect individuals' ways of shaping their own lives.
• Can be used in the same way as QALYs to perform economic evaluations (Cost per CALY)
• Make it possible to compare interventions with effects in different areas - for example to compare interventions with effects in health to interventions that affect life courses

I am mainly involved with the calculation of weights for CALY.