Titre :
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A universal preference for equality in health ? Reasons to reconsider properties of applied social welfare functions. (2012)
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Auteurs :
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MAESTAD (Ottar) : NOR. Chr Michelsen Institute. Bergen. ;
FRITHJOF NORHEIM (Ole) : NOR. Department of Public Health and Primary Health Care. University of Bergen.
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Type de document :
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Article
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Dans :
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Social science and medicine (vol. 75, n° 10, 2012)
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Pagination :
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1836-1843
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Langues:
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Anglais
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Mots-clés :
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Propriété
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Egalité sociale
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Assurance maladie
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Homme
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Résumé :
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[BDSP. Notice produite par INIST-CNRS EEsR0xlr. Diffusion soumise à autorisation]. The literature on how to combine efficiency and equity considerations in the social valuation of health allocations has borrowed extensively from applied welfare economics, including the literature on inequality measurement. By so doing, it has adopted normative assumptions that have been applied for evaluating the allocation of welfare (or income) rather than the allocation of health, including the assumption of a monotonically declining social marginal value of welfare/income/health. At the same time, empirical studies that have elicited social preferences for allocation of health have reported results that are seemingly incompatible with this assumption. There are two ways of addressing this inconsistency ; we may censor the stated preferences by arguing that they cannot be supported by normative arguments, or we may reject or modify the analytical framework in order to accommodate the stated preferences. We argue that the stated preferences can be supported by normative reasoning and therefore conclude that one should be cautious in applying the standard welfare economic framework to the allocation of health.
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