Normative foundations for equity-sensitive population health evaluation functions

Juan Moreno-Ternero and Lars Peter Østerdal

No 2014:1, DaCHE discussion papers from University of Southern Denmark, Dache - Danish Centre for Health Economics

Abstract: Standard models for the evaluation of population health, such as the so-called models of aggregate Quality Adjusted Life Years (QALYs), or aggregate Healthy Years Equiva- lent (HYEs), are usually criticized on equity grounds. We provide in this paper normative justi_cations for alternative equity-sensitive models, such as the so-called models of mul- tiplicative QALYs, multiplicative HYEs, and generalizations of the two. Our axiomatic approach assumes social preferences over distributions of individual health states experi- enced in a given period of time. It conveys informational simplicity, as it does not require information about individual preferences on health.

Keywords: Population health; equity; HYEs; QALYs; axioms (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D63 I10 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 20 pages
Date: 2014-01-10
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Working Paper: A normative foundation for equity-sensitive health evaluation: the role of relative comparisons of health gains (2016)
Working Paper: Normative foundations for equity-sensitive population health evaluation functions (2014)
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