The question of how to allocate scarce medical resources has become an important public policy issue in recent decades. Cost-utility analysis is the most commonly used method for determining the allocation of these resources, but this book counters the argument that overcoming its inherent imbalances is simply a question of implementing methodological changes.
The Economics of Resource Allocation in Health Care represents the first comprehensive analysis of equity weighting in health care resource allocation that offers a fundamental critique of its basic framework. It offers a critique of health economics, putting the discourse on economic evaluation into its broader socio-political context. Such an approach broadens the debate on fairness in health economics and ties it in with deeper-rooted problems in moral philosophy. Ultimately, this interdisciplinary study calls for the adoption of a fundamentally different paradigm to address the distribution of scarce medical resources.
This book will be of interest to policy makers, health care professionals, and post-graduate students looking to broaden their understanding of the economics of the health care system.
Produkteigenschaften
- Artikelnummer: 9781138184169
- Medium: Buch
- ISBN: 978-1-138-18416-9
- Verlag: Routledge
- Erscheinungstermin: 04.04.2016
- Sprache(n): Englisch
- Auflage: 1. Auflage 2016
- Serie: Routledge Advances in Social Economics
- Produktform: Gebunden
- Gewicht: 549 g
- Seiten: 252
- Format (B x H x T): 161 x 240 x 18 mm
- Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt