Bridging the gap : health equality and the deficit framing of health
Morton, Alec (2010) Bridging the gap : health equality and the deficit framing of health. Health Economics, 19 (12). pp. 1497-1501. (https://doi.org/10.1002/hec.1556)
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The analyst tasked with measuring population health, with appraising healthcare investments, or allocating healthcare resources, may frame their task in one of two possible ways: either as being concerned with health assets (e.g. health expectancy or stock of QALYs), or with health deficits (a ‘health gap’, analogous to the poverty gap). In this paper, we discuss the consequences of taking the asset or the deficit concept as one's basic building block in developing a health measurement system when one has concerns about equitable distribution. We conclude that building metrics from a primitive health gap concept is possible and indeed may offer insights not otherwise easily accessible.
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Item type: Article ID code: 45482 Dates: DateEventDecember 2010PublishedSubjects: Social Sciences > Industries. Land use. Labor > Management. Industrial Management Department: Strathclyde Business School > Management Science Depositing user: Pure Administrator Date deposited: 29 Oct 2013 15:37 Last modified: 08 Apr 2024 20:52 URI: https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/45482