Cardinal scales for health evaluation

Charles Harvey; Lars Peter Raahave Østerdal

doi:10.1287/deca.1100.0181

Cardinal scales for health evaluation

Charles Harvey, Lars Peter Raahave Østerdal

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Abstract

Policy studies often evaluate health for an individual or fora population by using measurement scales that are ordinal scalesor expected-utility scales. This paper develops scales of adifferent type, commonly called cardinal scales, that measurechanges in health. Also, we argue that cardinal scales providea meaningful and useful means of evaluating health policies.Thus, we develop a means of using the perspective of early neoclassicalwelfare economics as an alternative to ordinalist and expected-utilityperspectives.

Original language	English
Journal	Decision Analysis
Volume	7
Issue number	3
Pages (from-to)	256-281
Number of pages	26
ISSN	1545-8490
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1287/deca.1100.0181
Publication status	Published - Sept 2010

Keywords

Faculty of Social Sciences
health scales
population health
cardinal utility
neoclassical welfare economics
social welfare
preference intensity

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