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Alex Voorhoeve

Professor of Philosophy, London School of Economics and Political Science
Verified email at lse.ac.uk
Cited by 3333

[HTML][HTML] Criteria for the procedural fairness of health financing decisions: a scoping review

E Dale, EF Peacocke, E Movik… - Health Policy and …, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Due to constraints on institutional capacity and financial resources, the road to universal
health coverage (UHC) involves difficult policy choices. To assist with these choices …

How should we aggregate competing claims?

A Voorhoeve - Ethics, 2014 - journals.uchicago.edu
Many believe that we ought to save a large number from being permanently bedridden
rather than save one from death. Many also believe that we ought to save one from death …

[HTML][HTML] Difficult trade-offs in response to COVID-19: the case for open and inclusive decision making

OF Norheim, JM Abi-Rached, LK Bright, K Bærøe… - Nature Medicine, 2021 - nature.com
Difficult trade-offs in response to COVID-19: the case for open and inclusive decision making |
Nature Medicine Skip to main content Thank you for visiting nature.com. You are using a …

Why it matters that some are worse off than others: an argument against the priority view

M Otsuka, A Voorhoeve - Philosophy & Public Affairs, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
1. Unless we indicate otherwise, it should be assumed that the health states we refer to in
this article will last from early adulthood until the end of the lives of individuals with equally …

Universal health coverage, priority setting, and the human right to health

B Rumbold, R Baker, O Ferraz, S Hawkes, C Krubiner… - The Lancet, 2017 - thelancet.com
Following endorsement by WHO, 1, 2 the World Bank, 3 and the UN's Sustainable
Development Goals, 4 the drive towards universal health coverage (UHC) is now one of the …

How much ambiguity aversion? Finding indifferences between Ellsberg's risky and ambiguous bets

K Binmore, L Stewart, A Voorhoeve - Journal of risk and uncertainty, 2012 - Springer
Experimental results on the Ellsberg paradox typically reveal behavior that is commonly
interpreted as ambiguity aversion. The experiments reported in the current paper find the …

Decide as you would with full information

M Fleurbaey, A Voorhoeve - Inequalities in health: Concepts …, 2013 - books.google.com
As policy makers and private individuals, we sometimes face choices of the following kind:
either choose an alternative that has somewhat lower expected value for each person, but …

[BOOK][B] Conversations on ethics

A Voorhoeve - 2009 - books.google.com
Can we trust our intuitive judgments of right and wrong? Are moral judgements objective?
What reason do we have to do what is right and avoid doing what is wrong? In …

Egalitarianism and the Separateness of Persons

A Voorhoeve, M Fleurbaey - Utilitas, 2012 - cambridge.org
The difference between the unity of the individual and the separateness of persons requires
that there be a shift in the moral weight that we accord to changes in utility when we move …

Priority or equality for possible people?

A Voorhoeve, M Fleurbaey - Ethics, 2016 - journals.uchicago.edu
Suppose that you must make choices that may influence the well-being and the identities of
the people who will exist, though not the number of people who will exist. How ought you to …