Paper #472

Títol:

The significance of distributive effects in social assessment of health care

Autors:

Eva Rodríguez i José Luis Pinto

Data:

Juny 2000

Resum:

In this paper we address the importance of distributive effects in the social valuation of QALY's. 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, our 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.

Paraules clau:

QALY, distributive effects, social welfare function, inequality aversion

Codis JEL:

I18, D61, D63

Àrea de Recerca:

Economia Laboral, Pública, de Desenvolupament i de la Salut

Número sèrie CRES:

13

Publicat a:

Health Economics, 11, (2002), pp. 43-53
Amb el títol:
Measuring the Social Importance of Concentration or Dispersion of Individual Health Benefits

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