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The Global Challenge Of Health Care Rationing

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Rationing or priority setting occurs in all health care systems. Doctors, managers and politicians are involved in making decisions on how to use scarce resources and which groups and patients should receive priority. These decisions may be informed by the results of medical research and cost effectiveness studies but they also involve the use of judgement and experience. Consequently, priority setting involves ethics as well as economics and decisions on who should live and who should die remain controversial and contested.

Language: English

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Open University Press

Release: February 01, 2000

ISBN: 0335204643

ISBN 13: 9780335204649

The Global Challenge Of Health Care Rationing

0/5 ( ratings)

Rationing or priority setting occurs in all health care systems. Doctors, managers and politicians are involved in making decisions on how to use scarce resources and which groups and patients should receive priority. These decisions may be informed by the results of medical research and cost effectiveness studies but they also involve the use of judgement and experience. Consequently, priority setting involves ethics as well as economics and decisions on who should live and who should die remain controversial and contested.

Language: English

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Open University Press

Release: February 01, 2000

ISBN: 0335204643

ISBN 13: 9780335204649

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