期刊名称：CORE Discussion Papers / Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (UCL), Louvain
出版年度：2012
卷号：2012
期号：1
出版社：Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (UCL), Louvain
摘要：We explore in this paper the implications of ethical and operational principles for
the evaluation of population health. We formalize those principles as axioms for
social preferences over distributions of health for a given population. We single out
several focal population health evaluation functions, which represent social
preferences, as a result of combinations of those axioms. Our results provide
rationale for popular theories in health economics (such as the unweighted
aggregation of QALYs or HYEs, and generalizations of the two, aimed to capture
concerns for distributive justice) without resorting to controversial assumptions
over individual preferences.
