TY  - JOUR
EP  - 108
IS  - 2
AV  - public
SN  - 1754-9981
TI  - Introduction to Symposium on Daniel Hausman's Valuing Health: Well-Being, Freedom and Suffering
KW  - Social Sciences
KW  -  Science & Technology
KW  -  Life Sciences & Biomedicine
KW  -  Ethics
KW  -  Public
KW  -  Environmental & Occupational Health
KW  -  Medical Ethics
KW  -  Social Sciences - Other Topics
KW  -  TRADE-OFF
N1  - © The Author 2017. Published by Oxford University Press. This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher?s terms and conditions.
ID  - discovery1554623
UR  - http://doi.org/10.1093/phe/phx008
N2  - This article introduces a symposium on Daniel Hausman?s Valuing Health: Well-Being, Suffering and Freedom (OUP, 2015). The symposium contains papers by Elselijn Kingma, Adam Oliver, Anna Alexandrova, Erik Nord, Alex Voorhoeve and James Wilson, with replies by Daniel Hausman. In Valuing Health, Hausman argues that, despite apparently measuring health, projects such as the Global Burden of Disease Study in fact measure judgments about the value of health. Once this has been clarified, the key question is how the value of health should be measured. Hausman argues that existing instruments measure the private value of health, that is, health?s ?contribution to whatever the individual cares about or should care about?, whereas what should be measured for resource allocation purposes is the public value of health, that is, the value health should be accorded from the perspective of the liberal state. Hausman argues that the public value of health should be measured by the extent to which (i) suffering and (ii) activity limitations are relieved. Each commentator engages with a different aspect of Hausman?s argument.
Y1  - 2017/07//
A1  - Wilson, J
PB  - OXFORD UNIV PRESS
JF  - Public Health Ethics
SP  - 105
VL  - 10
ER  -