Comparability of health states

Daniel Hausman

doi:10.1007/s11098-023-02061-y

Comparability of health states

Daniel Hausman

Institute for Health, Health Care Policy & Aging Research, Center for Population-Level Bioethics

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Measuring an individual’s health states presupposes the ability to compare them. I maintain that our ability to compare quantities or magnitudes of health are severely limited. It is easier to compare values of health states, but those values are context dependent and often unreliable.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	3289-3301
Number of pages	13
Journal	Philosophical Studies
Volume	181
Issue number	12
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s11098-023-02061-y
State	Published - Dec 2024

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