Scandinavian Working Papers in Economics

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University of Southern Denmark, Dache - Danish Centre for Health Economics

No 2015:1: The implications of equal value of life and prioritarianism for the evaluation of population health

Juan D Moreno-Terneroy () and Lars Peter Ă˜sterdal ()
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Juan D Moreno-Terneroy: Department of Economics, Universidad Pablo de Olavide,, Postal: Carretera de Utrera, Km. 1, 41013 Seville, Spain
Lars Peter Ă˜sterdal: COHERE, Postal: Department of Business and Economics,, University of Southern Denmark,, Campusvej 55, DK-5230 Odense M

Abstract: We analyze the implications of several principles related to the concepts of equal, or prioritarian, entitlement to continued life. These principles, when modeled as axioms for the evaluation of health distributions, and combined with some basic structural axioms, provide several characterization results of population health evaluation functions. Our analysis implies that the scope of the concepts of equal and prioritarian entitlement to continued life needs to be limited, in order to allow for morbidity (and not just mortality) concerns in the evaluation of population health.

Keywords: equal value of life; priority; population Health; axioms; morbidity; mortality

JEL-codes: D63; I10

22 pages, January 15, 2015

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