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Valuing Health Well-Being, Freedom, and Suffering

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Beschreibung

Produktdetails

Einband

Gebundene Ausgabe

Erscheinungsdatum

27.03.2015

Verlag

KNV Besorgung

Seitenzahl

288

Maße (L/B/H)

24/16,1/2 cm

Gewicht

499 g

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-0-19-023318-1

Beschreibung

Produktdetails

Einband

Gebundene Ausgabe

Erscheinungsdatum

27.03.2015

Verlag

KNV Besorgung

Seitenzahl

288

Maße (L/B/H)

24/16,1/2 cm

Gewicht

499 g

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-0-19-023318-1

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  • Produktbild: Valuing Health

    • Introduction

    • Acknowledgments

    • 1. Why Measure Health?

    • 1.1 Clinical and research uses

    • 1.2 Epidemiological or demographic uses

    • 1.3 Allocational use

    • 1.4 What a generic health measure should be

    • 2. Health

    • 2.1 Functional efficiency

    • 2.2 Pathological vs. healthy part function

    • 2.3 Should generic health measures quantify theoretical health?

    • 2.4 Functional efficiency without statistical normality

    • 2.5 Tentative Conclusions

    • 3. Normative Conceptions of Health and its Measurement

    • 3.1 Evaluative views of health

    • 3.2 Criticism of evaluative theories

    • 3.3 Concepts of health and generic health measurement

    • 3.4 Conclusions

    • 4. Can Health Be Measured?

    • 4.1 Measuring overall functional efficiency

    • 4.2 What measurement requires

    • 4.3 Categorizing health states

    • 4.4 Is the "at least as healthy as " relation complete?

    • 4.5 Does the value of health reflect the quantity of health?

    • 5. Health Measurement Systems

    • 5.1 Quality and disability weights

    • 5.2 Health-related quality of life (HRQoL)

    • 5.3 Assigning disability weights in GBD 2010

    • 5.4 GBD 2010: Interpreting the paired comparisons

    • 5.5 Conclusions: Why are health economists measuring attitudes?

    • 6. Well-Being and the Value of Health

    • 6.1 Well-being and the value of life

    • 6.2 Theories of well-being

    • 6.3 Can the value of health states be measured?

    • 6.4 Measuring average and standard values of health states

    • 6.5 What good are average or standard health-state values?

    • 7. Preferences

    • 7.1 What do economists take preferences to be?

    • 7.2 Preference and well-being: evaluative competence and the evidential view

    • 7.3 Preferences and other attitudes

    • 7.4 Preferences, attitudes, and feelings

    • 7.5 Can health be measured by preferences?

    • 8. Valuing Health by Eliciting Preferences

    • 8.1 Critique of preference elicitation practices

    • 8.2 Preference measurement and cognitive limits

    • 8.3 Whose preferences?

    • 8.4 Averaging

    • 8.5 Why rely on informants to value health states?

    • 8.6 Conclusions

    • 9. Health and Happiness

    • 9.1 Dolan and Kahneman's argument for subjective evaluation

    • 9.2 Subjective evaluation

    • 9.3 What matters, mood or subjective appraisal?

    • 9.4 Subjective evaluation of health

    • 9.5 Conclusions

    • 10. Qualms about Valuing Health by Well-Being

    • 10.1 Well-being and the value of health

    • 10.2 Can well-being be measured?

    • 10.3 Subjective experiences as a measure of well-being

    • 10.4 Measuring well-being by preferences

    • 11. What Makes Well-Being Measurable?

    • 11.1 Fundamental evaluation and Hume's position

    • 11.2 A more thoroughgoing subjectivist response and its problems

    • 11.3 What makes states of affairs better for people?

    • 12. Should Health Be Valued by its Contribution to Well-Being?

    • 12.1 The pitfalls and advantages of valuing health by its impact on well-being

    • 12.2 How else can health be valued?

    • 12.3 Is a scalar measure needed?

    • 12.4 Should health states be valued by their contribution to well-being?

    • 13. The Public Value of Health

    • 13.1 The "social value " of health states

    • 13.2 Liberalism and the value of health

    • 13.3 The two dimensions of the public value of health

    • 13.4 Public vs. private value and liberal state policy

    • 13.5 Conclusion: the public value of health

    • 14. Measuring the Public Value of Health States

    • 14.1 Ordering distress

    • 14.2 Ordering activity limitations

    • 14.3 Classifying health states for public evaluation

    • 14.4 Valuing limitation/distress pairs

    • 14.5 Conclusions: public evaluation

    • 15. Putting Health Measures to Work: Population Health and Cost-effectiveness

    • 15.1 Cost-effectiveness analysis

    • 15.2 Technical problems and conceptual problems in measuring effectiveness

    • 15.3 Should effectiveness be measured by increases in well-being or health?

    • 15.4 Further normative questions concerning what to measure

    • 15.5 Moral objections to rationing by cost-effectiveness and the relevance of public

    • values

    • 15.6 Conclusions

    • 16. How Health Policy Should Meet the Ethical Challenges

    • 16.1 Can the fair chances objection be justified?

    • 16.2 Severity: compassion and priority

    • 16.3 Non-aggreggation: respect or compassion

    • 16.4 Discrimination and fairness

    • 16.5 Rationing fairly and humanely

    • 16.6 Freedom, fairness, compassion, and markets

    • 17. Restricted Consequentialism and Public Policy

    • 17.1 Restricted consequentialism

    • 17.2 Coping with the measurement demands of restricted consequentialism

    • 17.3 Why not just ask?

    • 17.4 Conclusions

    • 17.5 A brief recap

    • References