Moreno-Ternero, Juan D.; Østerdal, Lars Peter - Center for Sundhedsøkonomisk Forskning (COHERE), … - 2014
Life Years (QALYs), or aggregate Healthy Years Equiva- lent (HYEs), are usually criticized on equity grounds. We provide in … this paper normative justi_cations for alternative equity-sensitive models, such as the so-called models of mul …- tiplicative QALYs, multiplicative HYEs, and generalizations of the two. Our axiomatic approach assumes social preferences over …