We explore in this paper the implications of ethical and operational principles for the evaluation of population health …. We formalize those principles as axioms for social preferences over distributions of health for a given population. We … single out several focal population health evaluation functions, which represent social preferences, as a result of …

.Cost-utility analysis compares the monetary cost of health interventions to the associated health consequences expressed using quality … of income and the health state dependence of consumption utility. The estimated monetary values range from e20 …

We introduce a measure of population health that is sensitive to dispersion in both agespecific health and lifespan …. The measure generalises health-adjusted life expectancy without requiring more data. A transformation of change in the … measure gives a distributionally sensitive monetary valuation of change in population health and disease burden. Application …