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Valuing health : well-being, freedom, and suffering / Daniel M. Hausman.
LIBRA RA418 .H38 2015
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hausman, Daniel M., 1947- author.
- Series:
- Population-level bioethics series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Social medicine.
- Health surveys.
- Medical economics.
- Medical policy.
- Social values.
- Health Status.
- Health Policy.
- Social Values.
- Medical Subjects:
- Health Status.
- Health Policy.
- Social Values.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 267 pages ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2015]
- Contents:
- Why measure health?
- Health
- Normative conceptions of health and its measurement
- Can health be measured?
- Health measurement systems
- Well-being and the value of health
- Preferences
- Valuing health by eliciting preferences
- Health and happiness
- Qualms about valuing health by well-being
- What makes well-being measurable?
- Should health be valued by its contribution to well-being?
- The public value of health
- Measuring the public value of health states
- Putting health measures to work : population health and cost-effectiveness
- How health policy should meet the ethical challenges
- Restricted consequentialism and public policy.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780190233181
- 0190233184
- OCLC:
- 889548405
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