Decide as you would with full information!: an argument against ex ante Pareto
Of every thousand children born in Iceland, two will die before their first birthday, but in Mozambique the death rate is sixty times higher. Even within countries - including some of the wealthiest - inequalities in longevity and health can be substantial. In recent years, epidemiologists have docu...
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ftlondoneconom:oai:eprints.lse.ac.uk:49857 2023-06-11T04:13:10+02:00 Decide as you would with full information!: an argument against ex ante Pareto Voorhoeve, Alex Fleurbaey, Marc Eyal, Nir Hurst, Samia A. Norheim, Ole F. Wikler, Dan 2013-10-10 http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/49857/ http://www.oup.com/uk/ eng eng Oxford University Press Inc Voorhoeve, Alex and Fleurbaey, Marc (2013) Decide as you would with full information!: an argument against ex ante Pareto. In: Eyal, Nir, Hurst, Samia A., Norheim, Ole F. and Wikler, Dan, (eds.) Inequalities in Health: Concepts, Measures and Ethics. Population-level bioethics. Oxford University Press Inc, New York, USA, pp. 113-128. ISBN 9780199931392 BJ Ethics HC Economic History and Conditions HN Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform HT Communities. Classes. Races RA Public aspects of medicine Book Section NonPeerReviewed 2013 ftlondoneconom 2023-05-04T22:30:17Z Of every thousand children born in Iceland, two will die before their first birthday, but in Mozambique the death rate is sixty times higher. Even within countries - including some of the wealthiest - inequalities in longevity and health can be substantial. In recent years, epidemiologists have documented the extent of these inequalities both between and within countries, stimulating in turn research both on their sources and on possible means for their alleviation. These extensive and influential efforts in research and in policy development have raised health inequalities to a prominent position among the central concerns of both national and global health. Less attention has been given to careful analysis and refinement of some key concepts and values that guide and motivate these studies of health inequalities. The essays in this book demonstrate the need to identify and debate alternative positions on the choice of measures of health inequality; the definitions of 'inequality' and 'inequity' in health, and their interrelationship; the ethical basis for attaching priority to narrowing gaps in longevity and health among individuals, groups, and societies; and the possible solutions to a series of puzzles involving uncertainty and variable population size. Book Part Iceland The London School of Economics and Political Science: LSE Research Online |
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Of every thousand children born in Iceland, two will die before their first birthday, but in Mozambique the death rate is sixty times higher. Even within countries - including some of the wealthiest - inequalities in longevity and health can be substantial. In recent years, epidemiologists have documented the extent of these inequalities both between and within countries, stimulating in turn research both on their sources and on possible means for their alleviation. These extensive and influential efforts in research and in policy development have raised health inequalities to a prominent position among the central concerns of both national and global health. Less attention has been given to careful analysis and refinement of some key concepts and values that guide and motivate these studies of health inequalities. The essays in this book demonstrate the need to identify and debate alternative positions on the choice of measures of health inequality; the definitions of 'inequality' and 'inequity' in health, and their interrelationship; the ethical basis for attaching priority to narrowing gaps in longevity and health among individuals, groups, and societies; and the possible solutions to a series of puzzles involving uncertainty and variable population size. |
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Voorhoeve, Alex and Fleurbaey, Marc (2013) Decide as you would with full information!: an argument against ex ante Pareto. In: Eyal, Nir, Hurst, Samia A., Norheim, Ole F. and Wikler, Dan, (eds.) Inequalities in Health: Concepts, Measures and Ethics. Population-level bioethics. Oxford University Press Inc, New York, USA, pp. 113-128. ISBN 9780199931392 |
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