TY - BOOK AU - Hausman,Daniel M. TI - Valuing health: well-being, freedom, and suffering T2 - Population-level bioethics series SN - 9780190233181 (hbk : alk. paper) AV - RA418 .H35 2015 U1 - 362.1 23 PY - 2015///] CY - Oxford, New York PB - Oxford University Press KW - Health Status KW - Health Policy KW - Social Values KW - local KW - Print books N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-257) and index; Why measure health? -- Health -- Normative conceptions of health and its measurement -- Can health be measured? -- Health measurement systems -- Well-being and the value of health -- Preferences -- Valuing health by eliciting preferences -- Health and happiness -- Qualms about valuing health by well-being -- What makes well-being measurable? -- Should health be valued by its contribution to well-being? -- The public value of health -- Measuring the public value of health states -- Putting health measures to work : population health and cost-effectiveness -- How health policy should meet the ethical challenges -- Restricted consequentialism and public policy ER -