A New Axiomatic Approach to the Evaluation of Population Health

Jens Hougaard (), Juan Moreno-Ternero and Lars Peter Østerdal

No 07_2012, MSAP Working Paper Series from University of Copenhagen, Department of Food and Resource Economics

Abstract: In this paper we explore the implications of ethical and operational principles for the evaluation of population health. We formalize those principles as axioms for social preferences over distributions of health for a given population. We single out several focal population health evaluation functions, which represent social preferences, as a result of combinations of those axioms. Our results provide rationale for popular theories in health economics (such as the unweighted aggregation of QALYs or HYEs, and generalizations of the two, aimed to capture concerns for distributive justice) without resorting to controversial assumptions over individual preferences.

Keywords: population health; QALYs; HYEs; axioms (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D63 I10 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 24 pages
Date: 2012-03
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