Moreno-Ternero, Juan D.Osterdal, Lars P.2025-01-072025-01-072023Moreno-Ternero, J.D., Østerdal, L.P. Entitlements to continued life and the evaluation of population health. Rev Econ Design 27, 561–579 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10058-022-00303-910.1007/s10058-022-00303-9https://hdl.handle.net/10433/22184FECYT -- JUSTICIA ECONOMICA Y BIENESTAR SOCIAL EN UN CONTEXTO DE RECURSO... FECYT -- FUNDAMENTOS NORMATIVOS PARA INDICADORES SOCIO-ECONOMICOSWe analyze the implications of axioms formalizing entitlements to continued life for the evaluation of population health, when combined with basic structural axioms. A straightforward implication of our analysis is that if the scope of equal entitlements to continued life is not limited, concerns for morbidity are dismissed in the evaluation of population health. Nevertheless, with axioms formalizing a more limited scope of equal entitlement to continued life, we provide several characterization results of focal population health evaluation functions, ranging from lifetime utilitarianism to generalized healthy years equivalent utilitarianism.application/pdfenAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internationalhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/AxiomsPopulation healthEqual value of lifeMorbidityMortalityjournal articleopen access