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.
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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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 Title
Oxford University Press
First Page
207
Last Page
222
Recommended Citation
Govind Persad & Jussica du Toit, The Case for Valuing Non-Health and Indirect Benefits, in Global Health Priority-Setting: Beyond Cost-Effectiveness 207 (Ole F. Norheim, Ezekiel J. Emanuel & Joseph Millum, eds., 2020).