Healthcare Spending: How Should We Factor in People’s Quality of Life?

December 5, 2022 -
2:00pm to 3:00pm

Peter A. Ubel, MD
Madge and Dennis T. McLawhorn University Distinguished Professor
Professor of Medicine and Business Administration
Professor in the Sanford School of Public Policy and in Population Health Sciences
Duke University

Abstract: There are many efforts to promote “value” in healthcare spending with a goal of maximizing the health benefits brought for the dollars spent. But how should quality of life be factored into determinations of value? Whose perspective should be taken regarding how to measure, and value, quality of life?

SHRS Bioethics and Health Humanities Series, co-sponsored by the Center for Bioethics & Health Law

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