Entitlements to continued life and the evaluation of population health

Juan Moreno-Ternero and Lars Peter Østerdal

Review of Economic Design, 2023, vol. 27, issue 3, No 4, 579 pages

Abstract: Abstract We analyze the implications of axioms formalizing entitlements to continued life for the evaluation of population health, when combined with basic structural axioms. A straightforward implication of our analysis is that if the scope of equal entitlements to continued life is not limited, concerns for morbidity are dismissed in the evaluation of population health. Nevertheless, with axioms formalizing a more limited scope of equal entitlement to continued life, we provide several characterization results of focal population health evaluation functions, ranging from lifetime utilitarianism to generalized healthy years equivalent utilitarianism.

Keywords: Axioms; Population health; Equal value of life; Morbidity; Mortality (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D63 I10 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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