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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.

Author: Abasolo, Ignacio, Tsuchiya, Aki
Publisher: Elsevier B.V.
Publication Name: Journal of Health Economics
Subject: Health care industry
ISSN: 0167-6296
Year: 2004
United States, Social service, Health services administration, Social welfare

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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.

Author: Dolan, Paul, Tsuchiya, Aki
Publisher: Elsevier B.V.
Publication Name: Journal of Health Economics
Subject: Health care industry
ISSN: 0167-6296
Year: 2005
Forecasts, trends, outlooks, Usage, Forecasts and trends, Market trend/market analysis, Health status indicators, Health attitudes

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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.

Author: Roberts, Jennifer, Tsuchiya, Aki, Gilks, Peter, McCabe, Christopher, Brazier, John, OEHagan, Anthony, Stevens, Katherine
Publisher: Elsevier B.V.
Publication Name: Journal of Health Economics
Subject: Health care industry
ISSN: 0167-6296
Year: 2006
Evaluation, Community health services, Regression analysis

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Subjects list: Analysis, United Kingdom
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