Robson, M., Asaria, M., Cookson, R. et al. (2 more authors) (2017) Eliciting the level of health inequality aversion in England. Health Economics, 26 (10). pp. 1328-1334. ISSN 1057-9230
Abstract
Health inequality aversion parameters can be used to represent alternative value judgements about policy concern for reducing health inequality versus improving total health. In this study, we use data from an online survey of the general public in England (n=244) to elicit health inequality aversion parameters for both Atkinson and Kolm social welfare functions. We find median inequality aversion parameters of 10.95 for Atkinson and 0.15 for Kolm. These values suggest substantial concern for health inequality among the English general public which, at current levels of quality adjusted life expectancy, implies weighting health gains to the poorest fifth of people in society six to seven times as highly as health gains to the richest fifth.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2016 The Authors. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
Keywords: | Health inequality; Inequality aversion; Social preferences; Survey; Welfare function |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health (Sheffield) > School of Health and Related Research (Sheffield) > ScHARR - Sheffield Centre for Health and Related Research The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > Department of Economics (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 11 Dec 2018 13:29 |
Last Modified: | 12 Dec 2018 08:56 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1002/hec.3430 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Wiley |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1002/hec.3430 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:138761 |