The Economics of Resource Allocation in Health Care : Cost-utility, social value, and fairness PDF

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.