Measuring the Global Burden of Disease : Philosophical Dimensions

著者名：Eyal, Nir (EDT)/Hurst, Samia A. (EDT)/Murray, Christopher J.L. (EDT)/Schroeder, S. Andrew (EDT)/Wikler, Daniel (EDT)

Oxford University Press（2020/05/19発売）

• 言語：ENG
• ISBN：9780190082543
• eISBN：9780190082574

Description

The Global Burden of Disease Study (GBD) is one of the largest-scale research collaborations in global health, distilling a wide range of health information to provide estimates and projections for more than 350 diseases, injuries, and risk factors in 195 countries. Its results are a critical tool informing researchers, policy-makers, and others working to promote health around the globe.A study like the GBD is, of course, extremely complex from an empirical perspective. But it also raises a large number of complex ethical and philosophical questions that have been explored in a series of collaborations over the past twenty years among epidemiologists, philosophers, economists, and policy scholars. The essays in this volume address issues of current and urgent concern to the GBD and other epidemiological studies, including rival understandings of causation, the aggregation of complex health data, temporal discounting, age-weighting, and the valuation of health states. The volume concludes with a set of chapters discussing how epidemiological data should and should not be used.Better appreciating the philosophical dimensions of a study like the GBD can make possible a more sophisticated interpretation of its results, and it can improve epidemiological studies in the future, so that they are better suited to produce results that can help us to improve global health.

Table of Contents

Part I: Background and Basics1. Introduction: Philosophy and the Global Burden of Disease Study - N. Eyal, S. Hurst, C.J.L. Murray, S.A. Schroeder, D. Wikler2. GBD: the basics - T. Vos3. Ethical Dimensions of the Global Burden of Disease - C.J.L. Murray, S.A. SchroederPart II: Measuring Health, Valuing Health4. Can Health Be Measured? - D. Hausman5. Health Can Be Measured: Weighing Disability in the Global Burden of Disease - J. Salomon6. Does GBD 2010 Succeed in Measuring Health? - D. Hausman7. Extended Preference and the Valuation of Health - M.D. Adler8. Equivalent Income and the Well-Being Burden of Disease - E. Schokkaert9. Years of Good Life Based on Consumption and Health: A Practical Wellbeing Metric for Economic Evaluation - R. Cookson, O. Cotton-Barratt, M. Adler, M. Asaria, T. Ord10. Values, Politics, and Health-Measurement - E. KingmaPart III: Causation11. Causal Attribution, Counterfactuals, and Disease Interventions - J. Woodward12. Causal Contribution - N. HallPart IV: Values and Measures of Health13. To Discount or Not to Discount? - M. Fleurbaey, S. Zuber14. Discounting for Uncertainty in Health - O. Cotton-Barratt15. Age and Time in the Measurement of the Burden of Disease - G. BognarPart V: Uses of GBD Data16. Healthy Nails versus Long Lives: An Analysis of a Dutch Priority-Setting Proposal - A. Voorhoeve17. The Uses of Burden of Disease Data for Priority Setting - T. Ottersen, O.F. Norheim18. The Global Health Impact Index - N. Hassoun