Abstract
Abstract
Longevity is an important aspect of health. Anyone who wants to measure the health of a population will need to take it into account. But there are special difficulties about doing so. This chapter explains why. Measuring health is one thing and valuing health is another. Which should we aim at? I assume we are interested in a person ‘s health as a component of her well-being. Well-being consists of various different sorts of goods, such as health, comfortable living, freedom from oppression, and so on. So we are interested in health as one good thing to be set alongside others. We are therefore interested in how good it is, which means we are interested in its value. This chapter is about valuing health—measuring the value of health—rather than measuring the quantity of health. Specifically, it is about the value of longevity.
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Oxford University PressOxford
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