Eliciting the Level of Health Inequality Aversion in England
通过在线调查244名英格兰公众，估计出Atkinson和Kolm社会福利函数中的健康不平等厌恶参数，发现公众对健康不平等有显著关注，相当于将最贫困五分之一人群的健康收益权重设为最富裕五分之一人群的6-7倍。
Health inequality aversion parameters can be used to represent alternative value judgements about policy concern for reducing health inequality versus improving total health. In this study, we use data from an online survey of the general public in England (n = 244) to elicit health inequality aversion parameters for both Atkinson and Kolm social welfare functions. We find median inequality aversion parameters of 10.95 for Atkinson and 0.15 for Kolm. These values suggest substantial concern for health inequality among the English general public which, at current levels of quality adjusted life expectancy, implies weighting health gains to the poorest fifth of people in society six to seven times as highly as health gains to the richest fifth. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.