Abstract
This article provides a brief overview of the issues faced by health economists in attempting to incorporate concerns for fairness or equity into the economic evaluation of health care and public health programs. It covers general terminology and distinctions, theories of equity in health care and health, frameworks for analyzing trade-offs between equity and efficiency, and methods for incorporating equity concerns into economic evaluation.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Encyclopedia of Health Economics |
Publisher | Elsevier |
Pages | 27-34 |
Number of pages | 8 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9780123756787 |
ISBN (Print) | 9780123756794 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 1 Jan 2014 |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© 2014 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Keywords
- Cost-value
- Discrete choice
- Economic evaluation
- Equality
- Equity
- Equity check list
- Equity weights
- Fair innings
- Fairness
- Health care
- Multi-criteria decision analysis
- Opportunity cost approach
- Person trade-off
- Public health
- Social welfare function