کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
961489 929859 2012 6 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Priority setting in health care and higher order degree change in risk
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم پزشکی و سلامت پزشکی و دندانپزشکی سیاست های بهداشت و سلامت عمومی
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Priority setting in health care and higher order degree change in risk
چکیده انگلیسی
This paper examines how priority setting in health care expenditures is influenced by the presence of uncertainty about the severity of the illness and the effectiveness of medical treatment. We provide necessary and sufficient conditions on social preferences under which a social planner will allocate more health care resources to populations at higher risk. Changes in risk are defined by the concept of stochastic dominance up to order n. The shape of the social utility function and an equity weighting function are used to model the inequality aversion of the social planner. We show that for higher order risk changes, the usual conditions on preferences such as prudence or relative risk aversion are not necessarily required to prioritise health care when there are different levels of uncertainty associated with otherwise similar patient groups.
ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Journal of Health Economics - Volume 31, Issue 3, May 2012, Pages 484-489
نویسندگان
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