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How health care can be cost-effective and fair /

Daniel M. Hausman defends a major role for cost-effective reasoning in healthcare distribution, while also recognising its serious limitations.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hausman, Daniel M., 1947- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2023]
Series:Population-level bioethics series.
Subjects:
Health care rationing.
Cost effectiveness.
Health Resources
Cost-Benefit Analysis
Health Care Rationing
Coût-efficacité.
cost benefit analysis.
Ethics & Moral Philosophy.
PHILOSOPHY.
SOCIAL SCIENCE.
Disease & Health Issues.
Health care rationing
Social services & welfare, criminology.
Health and Wellbeing.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Measuring Health and the "Effectiveness" of Health Care
  • Cost-Effectiveness, Well-Being and Freedom
  • Conceptual, Technical, and Ethical Problems with cost effectiveness
  • Theories of Fair Distribution
  • What Constitutes a Fair Allocation of Health Care?
  • Fair Chances
  • Does Cost-Effectiveness Fail to Give Sufficient Priority to Severity?
  • To Aggregate or not to Aggregate
  • Discrimination
  • Health Care : Respectful, Cost Effective, and Fair.