Publication Date

2020

Document Type

Book Chapter

Organizational Units

Sturm College of Law

Keywords

Health policy, Physicians' role obligations, Indirect benefits

Abstract

Health policy is only one part of social policy. Although spending administered by the health sector constitutes a sizeable fraction of total state spending in most countries, other sectors such as education and transportation also represent major portions of national budgets. Additionally, though health is one important aspect of economic and social activity, people pursue many other goals in their social and economic lives. Similarly, direct benefits—those that are immediate results of health policy choices—are only a small portion of the overall impact of health policy. This chapter considers what weight health policy should give to its “spill-over effects,” namely non-health and indirect benefits.

Rights Holder

Govind Persad , Jessica du Toit

Provenance

Received from author

File Format

application/pdf

Language

English (eng)

Extent

16 pgs

File Size

1.2 MB

Publication Statement

Originally published as Govind Persad & Jussica du Toit, The Case for Valuing Non-Health and Indirect Benefits, in Global Health Priority-Setting: Beyond Cost-Effectiveness 207-222 (Ole F. Norheim, Ezekiel J. Emanuel & Joseph Millum, eds., 2020). Reproduced by permission of Oxford University Press.

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Publication Title

Oxford University Press

First Page

207

Last Page

222

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