Entitlements to continued life and the evaluation of population health

Juan Moreno-Ternero and Lars Peter Østerdal

No 22.08, Working Papers from Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Department of Economics

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 (and not just mortality) 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)
Pages: 25 pages
Date: 2022
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