Dolan, Paul 
ORCID: 0009-0007-9351-1510 and Olsen, Jan Abel
(2001)
Equity in health: the importance of different health streams.
Journal of Health Economics, 20 (5).
pp. 823-834.
ISSN 0167-6296
Abstract
This paper develops a conceptual framework in which preferences about the distribution of future health gains depend on differences in four ‘health streams’. These are as follows: (1) the amount of health to be gained; (2) the no-treatment profiles; (3) the amount of health experienced thus far; and (4) the amount of health gained previously as a result of public health interventions. This classification puts the well-established concerns for severity (stream 2) and age weights (stream 3) into a more complete analytical framework. Stream 4 has not been discussed to date and the paper suggests some moral arguments about the distributive relevance of this stream of health.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Official URL: | http://www.elsevier.com.gate2.library.lse.ac.uk/wp... |
| Additional Information: | © 2001 Elsevier Science B.V. |
| Divisions: | Social Policy |
| Subjects: | R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine |
| Date Deposited: | 02 Mar 2011 15:07 |
| Last Modified: | 15 Nov 2025 03:15 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/33022 |
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