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Aversion to Health Inequalities and Priority Setting in Health Care
Traditionally aversion to health inequality is modelled through a concave utility function over
health outcomes. Bleichrodt et al. (2004) have suggested a "dual" approach based on the
introduction of explicit equity weights. The purpose of this paper is to analyze how priorities
in health care are determined in the framework of these two models. It turns out that policy
implications are highly sensitive to the choice of the model that will represent aversion to
health inequality