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A normative foundation for equity-sensitive health evaluation: The role of relative comparison of health gains

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  • Juan D. Moreno-Ternero
  • Lars Peter Osterdal

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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.
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  • Juan D. Moreno-Ternero & Lars Peter Osterdal, 2017. "A normative foundation for equity-sensitive health evaluation: The role of relative comparison of health gains," LIDAM Reprints CORE 2916, Université catholique de Louvain, Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE).
    • Handle: RePEc:cor:louvrp:2916
    Note: In : Journal of Public Economic Theory, 19, 1009-1025, 2017
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    1. Sakai, Toyotaka, 2025. "The probability smoothing problem: Characterizations of the Laplace method," Mathematical Social Sciences, Elsevier, vol. 135(C).
    2. Hansen, Kristian S. & Moreno-Ternero, Juan D. & Østerdal, Lars P., 2023. "Productivity and quality-adjusted life years: QALYs, PALYs and beyond," Working Papers 11-2023, Copenhagen Business School, Department of Economics.
    3. Ricardo Martínez & Juan D Moreno Ternero, 2021. "Pandemic performance," ThE Papers 21/09, Department of Economic Theory and Economic History of the University of Granada..
    4. Ricardo Martínez & Juan D. Moreno‐Ternero, 2024. "Redistribution with needs," Journal of Public Economic Theory, Association for Public Economic Theory, vol. 26(1), February.
    5. Moreno-Ternero, Juan D. & Platz, Trine Tornøe & Østerdal, Lars Peter, 2023. "QALYs, DALYs, and HALYs: A unifying framework for the evaluation of population health," Journal of Health Economics, Elsevier, vol. 87(C).
    6. Juan D. Moreno-Ternero & Lars Peter Østerdal, 2023. "Entitlements to continued life and the evaluation of population health," Review of Economic Design, Springer;Society for Economic Design, vol. 27(3), pages 561-579, September.
    7. Martínez, Ricardo & Moreno-Ternero, Juan D., 2022. "An axiomatic approach towards pandemic performance indicators," Economic Modelling, Elsevier, vol. 116(C).
    8. Hansen, Kristian S. & Moreno-Ternero, Juan D. & Østerdal, Lars P., 2024. "Quality- and productivity-adjusted life years: From QALYs to PALYs and beyond," Journal of Health Economics, Elsevier, vol. 95(C).
    9. Iluminada Fuertes-Fuertes & J. David Cabedo & Inmaculada Jimeno-García, 2019. "Capturing the Invisible Wealth in Nonprofits to Overcome Myopic Perceptions," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 12(1), pages 1-18, December.
    10. Moreno-Ternero, Juan D. & Østerdal, Lars Peter, 2024. "Setting Limits for the Principle of Equal Entitlement to Continued Life," Working Papers 18-2024, Copenhagen Business School, Department of Economics.

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    JEL classification:

    • D63 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics - - - Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement
    • I10 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - General

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