Belizean participated in a workshop on the use of the EQ 5D 5L questionnaire

Buenos Aires January 25, 2018 – In March of this year we will collaborate with the National Institute of Health – INS of Peru, in a project that seeks to obtain the assessment of Peruvians on the quality of life related to health. These data will strengthen the development of health economic evaluations as a tool in decision-making in said country. 

Within the framework of this project, researchers María Belizán (IECS) and Romina Tejada (INS – Peru) traveled to Rotterdam, Netherlands to participar of a workshop to train interviewers in the use of the EQ 5D 5L questionnaire, a standardized instrument developed by the EuroQol Group that will be implemented to obtain a set of social values ​​in a national representative sample of Peru. Researchers from different parts of the world participated in the two work days: Belgium, Denmark, Ethiopia, Hungary and England.