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ReviewCost effectiveness and resource allocation : C/E2024

Preferences as fairness judgments: a critical review of normative frameworks of preference elicitation and development of an alternative based on constitutional economics.

Wolf Rogowski, Jürgen John

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Wolf RogowskiDepartment of Health Care Management, Institute of Public Health and Nursing Research, Health Sciences, University of Bremen, Grazer Str. 2a, 28359, Bremen, Germany. rogowski@uni-bremen.de.
Jürgen JohnInstitute of Health Economics and Health Care Management (IGM), Helmholtz Zentrum München (GmbH) German Research Center for Environmental Health, Ingolstädter Landstraße 1, 85764, Neuherberg, Germany.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Preference elicitation is widely used within health economic evaluations to inform coverage decisions. However, coverage decisions involve questions of social justice and it is unclear what role empirical evidence about preferences can play here. This study reviews the prevalent normative frameworks for using population-based preference elicitation and the criticisms they face, and proposes an alternative based on constitutional economics. The frameworks reviewed include a supposedly value-neutral framework of preferences as predictors of choice, preference utilitarian frameworks that aim to maximize preference satisfaction, and substantive consequentialist frameworks that aim to maximize happiness, health, or capabilities. The proposed alternative implements the idea that indices of social value are tools for conflict resolution, rather than tools for maximization. Preference elicitation is used for validating values generated by multi-criteria decision analysis results within representative processes of stakeholder deliberation.

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Extra-welfarismHealth-related quality of lifeMulti-criteria decision analysisNormative health economicsPreference elicitationWelfarism

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PMID38291472
PMCPMC10826070

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