La aversión al riesgo en la toma de decisiones médicas: una revisión

Liliana Chicaíza Becerra, Mario García Molina and Giancarlo Romano G.

Econógrafos, Escuela de Economía from Universidad Nacional de Colombia, FCE, CID

Abstract: This article surveys the literature on risk aversion in medical decision making. Risk aversion concepts are presented in the frameworks of Subjective Expected Utility and Rank Dependent Expected Utility theories. The methodologies for measuring risk aversion and its applications to clinical situations are examined from the points of view of economics and psychology.

Keywords: Health economics; Decision; Risk aversion; Subjective expected Utility; Rank dependent Expected Utility (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D01 D03 D81 I12 I19 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 40
Date: 2011
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