A normative foundation for equity-sensitive health evaluation: the role of relative comparisons of health gains

Juan Moreno-Ternero and Lars Peter Østerdal

No 16.01, Working Papers from Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Department of Economics

Abstract: We explore in this paper the relationship between equity-sensitive population health evaluation measures and normative concerns for relative comparisons of health gains. Such a relationship allows us to characterize focal equity-sensitive models for the evaluation of population health. Instances are the so-called multiplicative Quality Adjusted Life Years (QALYs) and multiplicative Healthy Years Equivalent (HYEs), as well as generalizations of the two. Our axiomatic approach assumes social preferences over distributions of individual health states experienced 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; relative comparisons; axioms. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D63 I10 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 27 pages
Date: 2016-01
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