The Economics of Resource Allocation in Health Care : Cost-utility, social value, and fairness EPUB
by Andrea Klonschinski
Part of the Routledge Advances in Social Economics series
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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.
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- Pages:252 pages, 5 Tables, black and white; 5 Line drawings, black and white; 5 Illustrations, black and w
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:31/03/2016
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- ISBN:9781317291817
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- Format:EPUB
- Pages:252 pages, 5 Tables, black and white; 5 Line drawings, black and white; 5 Illustrations, black and w
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:31/03/2016
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- ISBN:9781317291817