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Valuing health properly

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2008

DANIEL M. HAUSMAN
DANIEL M. HAUSMAN*
Affiliation:
Herbert A. Simon Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
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*Correspondence to: Professor Daniel M. Hausman, Department of Philosophy, University of Wisconsin, Helen C. White Hall, 600 North Park Street, Madison, WI 53706, USA. Email: dhausman@wisc.edu
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Abstract

This comment on Paul Dolan's essay, ‘Developing methods that really do value the “Q” in the QALY,’ seconds his critique of current preference-based methods of valuing health states but disputes both his assumption that health states should be appraised by their bearing on well-being and his conclusion that the bearing of health states on well-being should be measured in terms of subjective experience. This comment defends instead the view that health states should be valued in terms of the range of activities that they permit.

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Health Economics, Policy and Law , Volume 3 , Issue 1 , January 2008 , pp. 79 - 83
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2008

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