Exploring social welfare functions and violation of monotonicity: an example from inequalities in health
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The social welfare function (SWF) is used within the economics literature for the purpose of studying trade-offs between equality and efficiency. A survey of the Spanish general public was undertaken to estimate preferences regarding equality in health, relative to efficiency in health that revealed a strong support to the existence of public preferences that violate the monotonicity principle.
Publication Name: Journal of Health Economics
Subject: Health care industry
ISSN: 0167-6296
Year: 2004
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Health priorities and public preferences: the relative importance of past health experience and future health prospects
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A study examining public preferences of those with worse future health prospects and the preference for the young over the adult, is presented. Four attributes, are taken into consideration, which include, past years, past health, future years without treatment and future health without treatment. Results indicate, preference for past years, and for younger groups.
Publication Name: Journal of Health Economics
Subject: Health care industry
ISSN: 0167-6296
Year: 2005
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Using rank data to estimate health state utility models
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A study compares regression models to evaluate community health measures taken up by governments.
Publication Name: Journal of Health Economics
Subject: Health care industry
ISSN: 0167-6296
Year: 2006
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