Cost-effectiveness in Animal Health
Publication Date
2019
Document Type
Book Chapter
Organizational Units
Sturm College of Law
Keywords
Animal health priorities, Quality of life
Abstract
This chapter evaluates the ethical issues that using cost-effectiveness considerations to set animal health priorities might present, and its conclusions are cautiously optimistic. While using cost-effectiveness calculations in animal health is not without ethical pitfalls, these calculations offer a pathway toward more rigorous priority-setting efforts that allow money spent on animal well-being to do more good. Although assessing quality of life for animals may be more challenging than in humans, implementing prioritization based on cost-effectiveness is less ethically fraught.
Recommended Citation
Govind Persad, Cost-Effectiveness in Animal Health: An Ethical Analysis, in Routledge Handbook of Animal Ethics 102 (Bob Fischer, ed., 2019).