 | Sandy Tubeuf Professor / International Chair in Global Health - Université catholique de Louvain Health Economics, Philosophy |
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06.07.2022-29.07.2022
Ethical principles and evaluation criteria when rationing health : a perspective over the lifecycle
Health is viewed as a capital that evolves over time along the lifecycle. This paper deals with the challenge of measuring inequality of opportunity in health over the lifecycle. One can measure inequality over the lifecycle by firstly aggregating health over ages at the individual level and then measuring inequality over individuals; this is the lifecycle perspective. Otherwise, one can measure health inequality over individuals at each age and then aggregate the inequality measure over ages; this is the age-specific perspective. We undertake comparisons of health distributions respecting the ordinal and qualitative nature of health outcomes. We use dominance criteria to rank social states according to an inequality viewpoint. While the lifecycle perspective provides a global view of inequality of opportunity in health, the age-specific perspective highlights how poor health statuses at some age could be compensated by good health statuses at other ages.
Sandy Tubeuf has joined UCLouvain as a professor of health economics in Sept. 2018. Prior to her appointment at UCLouvain, Sandy spent 10 years at the University of Leeds, from 2013 she was appointed Associate Professor and deputy director of the Academic Unit of Health Economics. She received her European PhD in Economics from Aix-Marseille School of Economics in 2008.
She has developed a substantial empirical and theoretical body of work on the understanding of the determinants of health inequalities and the importance of family background, individual lifestyles and access to health care using data in France, the UK, and Europe. She has also developed research work in global health and development economics.
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