Should the capability approach be applied in Health Economics?
Coast, Joanna
Smith, Richard Lorgelly, Paula |
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2008-06 | |
Health Economics | |
This editorial questions the implications of the capability approach for health economics. Two specific issues are considered: the evaluative space of capablities (as opposed to health or utility) and the decision-making principle of maximisation. The paper argues that the capability approach can provide a richer evaluative space enabling improved evaluation of many interventions. It also argues that more thought is needed about the decision-making principles both within the capability approach and within health economics more generally. Specifically, researchers should analyse equity-oriented principles such as equalisation and a ‘decent minimum’ of capability, rather than presuming that the goal must be the maximisation of capability. Copyright r 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. |
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capability
welfarism non-welfarism |
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667-670 p. | |
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© 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. | |
https://resources.equityinitiative.org/handle/ei/428 |
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