Health Impact and Social Value of Interventions, Services, and Policies: A Methodological Discussion of Health Impact Assessment and Social Return on Investment Methodologies

Abstract

Conclusion: HIA and SROI have many synergies in their approaches. This research suggests potential benefits when used in tandem, or combining the methods to assess impact and account for social value. Further research is needed to understand the implications of this in practice, and to understand how the results of the two methods could be used by decision-makers.

Accounting for Emotional Value: A Review in Disability Organizations

“…The results reveal that the analysis of some quality of life domains provides appropriate evidence to represent the emotional value generated by these organizations, and offers a holistic and understandable view of the individual's well-being, as Van Loon et al (2013) already suggested. In comparison with an emotional value measuring system based on global perceptions of consumer in their market transactions, as might be expected in a commercial company (Lazkano and Beraza, 2019;Ruiz-Roqueñi, 2020), our results show that, in disability organizations emotional value is related to personal well-being and collective values, and goes beyond the mere state of the individual's health or the coverage of their basic needs (Ashton et al, 2020;.…”

“…Corvo et al (2021) conclude that of the 98 impact assessment models identified in the literature, SROI is the most widely used compared to other models coming from performance and management systems. Furthermore, the SROI methodology has emerged as a preferred technique for measuring social value and impact in the field of health and care services (Krlev et al, 2013), since some organizations such as the UK Department of Health have been promoting its application in social accounting for more than a decade (Millar and Hall, 2013;Banke-Thomas et al, 2015;Ashton et al, 2020;Corvo et al, 2021). However, this is not surprising since we collected the analyzed reports from the Social Value UK database, which could lead to a biased result.…”

“…Since these issues are related to the fulfillment of the mission of nonprofit organizations, it is essential that they are reflected in its social accounting model . However, it is not easy to account for these values (Edwards et al, 2013;Millar and Hall, 2013;Banke-Thomas et al, 2015;Ashton et al, 2020).…”

“…Emotional well-being is thus differentiated from well-being arising from the individual's state of health and from well-being providing the necessary means to lead a dignified life, although there are obvious links between all these well-being dimensions. Accordingly, for disability organizations to improve people's emotional wellbeing, it is not enough with a welfare model that prolongs people's life expectancy , or that is focused only in improving their physical and mental state and the coverage of basic needs (Ashton et al, 2020). Overcoming this neoclassical approach, it is necessary for these organizations to act in other quality of life domains, such as those related to security, trust and the affective environment.…”

“…These improvements are achieved through programs that promote employability (e.g., , entrepreneurial competences (e.g., Barba-Sánchez et al, 2019Ortiz García and Olaz Capitán, 2021), learning (e.g., , or participation in artistic, cultural or recreational activities (e.g., Bosco et al, 2019). Regarding collective capacities, it will be necessary to consider issues related to equity (Ashton et al, 2020) and dignity (Aguado et al, 2015), and to sensitize society about social problems (Edwards et al, 2015).…”