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Measuring the social importance of concentration or dispersion of individual health benefits

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Eva Rodríguez-Míguez (Departamento de Economía Aplicada, Facultad de Economía, Universidad de Vigo, Lagoas-Marcosende s|n, 36200 Vigo, Galicia, España)
José-Luis Pinto-Prades (Department of Economics and Center for Health Economics, Pompeu Fabra University)

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In this paper we address the importance of distributive preferences in the social valuation of quality-adjusted life years (QALYs). We propose a social welfare function that generalises the functions traditionally used in the health economic literature. The novelty is that, depending on the individual health gains, this function can represent either preferences for concentrating or preferences for spreading total gain or both together, an issue which has not been addressed until now. Based on an experiment, we observe that this generalisation provides a suitable approximation to the sampled social preferences. Copyright © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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Article provided by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. in its journal Health Economics.

Volume (Year): 11 (2002)
Issue (Month): 1 ()
Pages: 43-53
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  1. Paul Dolan & Rebecca Shaw & Aki Tsuchiya & Alan Williams, 2005. "QALY maximisation and people's preferences: a methodological review of the literature," Health Economics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 14(2), pages 197-208. [Downloadable!]
  2. Dorte Gyrd-Hansen & Ivar Sønbø Kristiansen, 2008. "Preferences for 'life-saving' programmes: Small for all or gambling for the prize?," Health Economics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 17(6), pages 709-720. [Downloadable!]
  3. Abellán Perpiñán, José Mª & Sánchez Martínez,Fernando I. & Martínez Pérez, Jorge E., 2007. "La medición del bienestar social relacionado con la salud/The Measurement of the Health Related Social Welfare," Estudios de Economía Aplicada, Estudios de Economía Aplicada, vol. 25, pages 823 - 24 , Diciembre. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
  4. Michaël Schwarzinger & Jean-Louis Lanoë & Erik Nord & Isabelle Durand-Zaleski, 2004. "Lack of multiplicative transitivity in person trade-off responses," Health Economics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 13(2), pages 171-181. [Downloadable!]
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  6. Lars Peter Østerdal, 2004. "QALYs, Person Trade-Offs, and the Pareto Principle," Discussion Papers 04-10, University of Copenhagen. Department of Economics. [Downloadable!]
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