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Aristotelian justice and health policy: Capability and incompletely theorized agreements.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Aristotelian justice and health policy: Capability and incompletely theorized agreements./
Author:	Ruger, Jennifer Prah.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 1998,
Description:	139 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 60-02, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International60-02A.
Subject:	Public administration. -
Online resource:	https://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9832480
ISBN:	9780591856002

Aristotelian justice and health policy: Capability and incompletely theorized agreements.
Ruger, Jennifer Prah.

Aristotelian justice and health policy: Capability and incompletely theorized agreements. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 1998 - 139 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 60-02, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Harvard University, 1998.

The dissertation Aristotelian Justice and Health Policy: Capability and Incompletely Theorized Agreements (advisors: Amartya Sen (chair), Jerry Green, and Joseph Newhouse) focuses on the implications for health policy of Aristotelian/Capability lines of reasoning to social justice and efficiency. The monograph draws on philosophical and economic analysis and social choice theory in the examination of health capabilities as: (i) a central focal variable for the assessment of equality and efficiency in health policy; (ii) the product of health and other public policies; and (iii) the object of social choice. Drawing on moral and political philosophy, the Aristotelian/Capability lines of reasoning provide the basis for the special moral importance of health capabilities as the central focal variable for assessing equality and efficiency in health policy. These lines of thought take a universal view of humans' capability to flourish as an end of political activity and provide an analytical framework to address questions of justice and efficiency in public policy in a way that other philosophical schools do not. Drawing on economic analysis, the monograph makes a case for focusing attention in health economics and health policy on the economics of health, per se, as differentiated from the economics of medical care, and as such emphasizes the analysis of empirical evidence on the instrumental effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of the various determinants of health and the public policies associated with these determinants. Further investigations of the determinants and consequences of variations in health capabilities is necessary to fully understand the patterns and public policies associated with health production. And finally, drawing on social choice literature, this monograph identifies and defends a particular approach to collective decision making in public policy--incompletely theorized agreements (ICTA). In matters of social decision making about health capabilities in health policy, the ICTA framework is particularly useful and complementary to the capability approach. Health, and thus health capabilities, is a multidimensional concept about which different people have different, and sometimes conflicting, views. Since no unique view of health capabilities exists and is ideal for all evaluative purposes, the pragmatism of both the incomplete ordering of the capability approach and the incompletely theorized agreement on that ordering of the ICTA approach allow for reasoned public policy decision making and analysis in particular situations in the face of plural goods and different, even conflicting, views.

ISBN: 9780591856002Subjects--Topical Terms:

531287
Public administration.
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social choice

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