housing on health and on income? How do we choose between policies in completely different areas, such as an education policy … and a health policy? Treasury's Living Standards Framework provides one possible starting point, but it provides little …

This paper proposes a method to evaluate health technologies in a given therapeutic area. The key concept is a social … health index which measures the performance of the health system. It considers both the level and the distribution of health … in the population. If improvements in the social health index are valued with a social willingness to pay, it is possible …

life", such as health and equality of opportunity. However, per capita GDP has the virtues of easy interpretation and can … preserves the advantages of per capita GDP, but also includes health and equality. We propose a new parsimonious indicator to …