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2026

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
110
Citations
58182
World Ranking
49
National Ranking
7

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • Fellow of The Academy of Medical Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of The Academy of Medical Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of The Academy of Medical Sciences, United Kingdom

Overview

John Brazier is affiliated with the University of Sheffield in the United Kingdom. Their research spans several fields, primarily Economics, Econometrics and Finance with a focus on related subfields such as Economics and Econometrics, and intersects with Medicine, particularly General Health Professions.

Their main research areas include Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, and Quality of Life. They have also worked extensively on topics involving Economic and Environmental Valuation, Healthcare Policy and Management, Global Health Care Issues, Retinal Diseases and Treatments, Retinal Imaging and Analysis, and Health disparities and outcomes.

John Brazier has contributed to frequent publications in a variety of venues, including:

  • Value in Health
  • OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) (La Trobe University)
  • PharmacoEconomics
  • Quality of Life Research
  • White Rose Research Online (University of Leeds, The University of Sheffield, University of York)

Their notable recent papers include:

  • Developing a New Version of the SF-6D Health State Classification System From the SF-36v2: SF-6Dv2, 2020, Medical Care
  • The EQ-HWB: Overview of the Development of a Measure of Health and Wellbeing and Key Results, 2022, Value in Health
  • Vignette-Based Utilities: Usefulness, Limitations, and Methodological Recommendations, 2021, Value in Health
  • Valuing the SF-6Dv2 Classification System in the United Kingdom Using a Discrete-choice Experiment With Duration, 2020, Medical Care
  • Valuation of SF-6Dv2 Health States in China Using Time Trade-off and Discrete-Choice Experiment with a Duration Dimension, 2021, PharmacoEconomics

Collaborations are a significant feature of their work, with frequent co-authors including Donna Rowen, Clara Mukuria, Jill Carlton, Brendan Mulhern, and Jan Henrik Terheyden.

John Brazier is recognized as a Fellow of The Academy of Medical Sciences in the United Kingdom.

Best Publications

  • Validating the SF-36 health survey questionnaire: new outcome measure for primary care.

    J. E. Brazier;R. Harper;N. M. B. Jones;A. O'cathain

  • The estimation of a preference-based measure of health from the SF-36

    John Brazier;Jennifer Roberts;Mark Deverill

  • Cross-Validation of Item Selection and Scoring for the SF-12 Health Survey in Nine Countries: Results from the IQOLA Project

    Barbara Gandek;John E. Ware;Neil K. Aaronson;Giovanni Apolone

  • Health, Health-Related Quality of Life, and Quality of Life: What is the Difference?

    Milad Karimi;John Brazier

  • The estimation of a preference-based measure of health from the SF-12.

    John E Brazier;Jennifer Roberts

  • Comparison of the minimally important difference for two health state utility measures: EQ-5D and SF-6D.

    Stephen J. Walters;John E. Brazier

  • Measuring and Valuing Health Benefits for Economic Evaluation

    John Brazier;J Salomon;Julie Ratcliffe;Aki Tsuchiya

  • A comparison of the EQ-5D and SF-6D across seven patient groups.

    John Brazier;Jennifer Roberts;Aki Tsuchiya;Jan Busschbach

  • Testing the validity of the Euroqol and comparing it with the SF-36 health survey questionnaire.

    J. Brazier;N. Jones;P. Kind

  • Deriving a Preference-Based Single Index from the UK SF-36 Health Survey

    John Brazier;Tim Usherwood;Rosemary Harper;Kate Thomas

  • The Factor Structure of the SF-36 Health Survey in 10 Countries: Results from the IQOLA Project

    John E. Ware Jr.;Mark Kosinski;Barbara Gandek;Neil K. Aaronson

  • The equivalence of SF-36 summary health scores estimated using standard and country-specific algorithms in 10 countries: results from the IQOLA Project. International Quality of Life Assessment

    John E. Ware Jr.;Barbara Gandek;Mark Kosinski;Neil K. Aaronson

  • A review of the use of health status measures in economic evaluation.

    John Brazier;Mark Deverill;Colin Green

  • A review of studies mapping (or cross walking) non-preference based measures of health to generic preference-based measures

    John E. Brazier;Yaling Yang;Aki Tsuchiya;Donna Louise Rowen

  • A review of the use of health status measures in economic evaluation.

    J Brazier;M Deverill;C Green;R Harper

  • Tests of data quality, scaling assumptions, and reliability of the SF-36 in eleven countries: results from the IQOLA Project. International Quality of Life Assessment

    Barbara Gandek;John E. Ware Jr.;Neil K. Aaronson;Jordi Alonso

  • Probabilistic sensitivity analysis for NICE technology assessment: not an optional extra

    Karl Claxton;Mark Sculpher;Chris McCabe;Andrew Briggs

  • Evaluating translations of health status questionnaires. Methods from the IQOLA project. International Quality of Life Assessment.

    John E. Ware Jr.;Susan D. Keller;Barbara Gandek;John E. Brazier

  • A comparison of generic, indirect utility measures (the HUI2, HUI3, SF-6D and the EQ-5D) and disease-specific instruments (the RAQoL and the HAQ) in rheumatoid arthritis

    Carlo A. Marra;John C. Woolcott;Jacek A. Kopec;Kamran Shojania

  • Using the SF‐36 with older adults: a cross‐sectional community‐based survey

    Stephen J. Walters;James F. Munro;John E. Brazier

  • What is the relationship between the minimally important difference and health state utility values? The case of the SF-6D.

    Stephen J Walters;John E Brazier

Frequent Co-Authors

Donna Rowen
Donna Rowen University of Sheffield
Julie Ratcliffe
Julie Ratcliffe Flinders University
Michael Barkham
Michael Barkham University of Sheffield
Janice Connell
Janice Connell University of Sheffield
Jennifer Roberts
Jennifer Roberts University of Sheffield
Jakob B. Bjorner
Jakob B. Bjorner University of Copenhagen
Terry N. Flynn
Terry N. Flynn University of Nottingham
Glenys Parry
Glenys Parry University of Sheffield
Michael G. Sawyer
Michael G. Sawyer University of Adelaide
Stuart Peacock
Stuart Peacock Simon Fraser University

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