Cardinal Scales for Public Health Evaluation

Charles M. Harvey and Lars Peter Østerdal
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Charles M. Harvey: University of Houston

No 07-01, Discussion Papers from University of Copenhagen. Department of Economics

Abstract: Policy studies often evaluate health for a population by summing the individuals’ health as measured by a scale that is ordinal or that depends on risk attitudes. We develop a method using a different type of preferences, called preference intensity or cardinal preferences, to construct scales that measure changes in health. The method is based on a social welfare model that relates preferences between changes in an individual’s health to preferences between changes in health for a population.

Keywords: public health evaluation; social welfare; preference intensity; health state (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D63 H43 I18 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 34 pages
Date: 2007-01
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