Valuing Health Test Bank, Hausman 1st Edition

Unlock the Secrets of Health Measurement

In Valuing Health, Daniel M. Hausman presents a comprehensive overview of generic health measurement, offering a philosophically sophisticated approach to understanding and evaluating health states.

Revolutionize Your Approach to Health Measurement

Hausman critiques current methods, including surveys, and proposes a radical alternative, allowing for a more direct evaluation of health states. He tackles the deep problems of evaluation, providing an account of fundamental evaluation that does not rely on assigning values to properties and consequences of alternatives.

Discover the Value of Health States

Hausman defends a naturalistic concept of health, exploring its connections to measures like QALYs and DALYs. He examines current health-measurement systems, clarifying their value commitments and the objections to relying on preference surveys. By interpreting liberal political philosophy, Hausman argues that public value should be understood in terms of activity limits and suffering imposed by health states.

Make Informed Policy Decisions

Hausman addresses the moral conundrums arising when policymakers employ health values to estimate benefits and adopt cost-effective policies. He concludes with a discussion of combining consequentialist and non-consequentialist moral considerations in policy-making.