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Equity and Efficiency Impact Plane

Group-specific incremental net health distinguishes total benefit from reduction of an existing health gap.

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When to use it

Use with explicit group populations, opportunity costs, baseline inequality and value judgments; the plane does not choose an equity-aversion parameter.

How to read it

Equal group shares have net-health changes (.03,.01), (.05,-.01), and (-.02,.04). The initial disadvantaged-group gap is assumed large enough not to reverse under these changes.

Worked example

Group-specific incremental net health distinguishes total benefit from reduction of an existing health gap.

Equal group shares have net-health changes (.03,.01), (.05,-.01), and (-.02,.04). The initial disadvantaged-group gap is assumed large enough not to reverse under these changes.

Result: Use with explicit group populations, opportunity costs, baseline inequality and value judgments; the plane does not choose an equity-aversion parameter.

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Distributional Cost-Effectiveness Analysis Economic Perspective and Opportunity Cost

Reference: Primary method sources are listed in the linked producing-method entries. The displayed data are original synthetic teaching examples, not published patient results.