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The capability approach

The Philosophers' Magazine, 2010
Research by many feminist economists bears a set of common methodological features, which Marilyn Power has identified as the social provisioning approach (SPA). This chapter argues that the synergy and overlap between the SPA and the capability approach (CA) is not only in the shared conceptualization of well-being.
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The Capability Approach and Research on Children: Capability Approach and Children’s Issues

2010
The objective of this chapter is to show that the Capability Approach can serve as an appropriate conceptual framework and a normative tool to analyse children’s well-being and other relevant children’s issues. To meet this objective, the second section reviews the literature on children and the Capability Approach with a special focus on empirical ...
BIGGERI, MARIO, J. Ballet, F. Comim
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QALYs and the capability approach

Health Economics, 2005
AbstractThis explores the applicability of Sen's capability approach to the economic evaluation of health care programmes. An individual's ‘capability set’ describes his freedom to choose valuable activities and states of being (‘functionings’). Direct estimation and valuation of capability sets is not feasible at present.
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Capabilities and Incapabilities of the Capabilities Approach to Health Justice

Bioethics, 2015
ABSTRACTThis first part of this article critiques Sridhar Venkatapuram's conception of health as a capability. It argues that Venkatapuram relies on the problematic concept of dignity, implies that those who are unhealthy lack lives worthy of dignity (which seems politically incorrect), sets a low bar for health, appeals to metaphysically problematic ...
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