Efficiency and Equity in Health: Philosophical Considerations

Encyclopedia of Health Economics Vol. 1 (2014)
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Abstract

Efficiency and equity are central concepts for the normative assessment of health policy. Drawing on the work of academic philosophers and philosophically sophisticated economists, this article identifies important philosophical questions implicated by the notions of efficiency and equity and then summarizes influential answers to them. Promising avenues for further philosophical research are also highlighted, especially in the context of health equity and its elusive ethical foundations.

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J. Paul Kelleher
University of Wisconsin, Madison

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