Abstract
Increasingly, medical ethics involves decisions concerning the allocation of healthcare resources and the institutional arrangements for making those decisions. The key concepts of health-care resource allocation and cost need to be defined because they shape the moral and policy discussion. This chapter considers differentcriteria for evaluating allocation of health-care resources. Two types of modelsof allocation are examined: effi ciency models and ethical models.
| Original language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Title of host publication | Justice and Health Care |
| Subtitle of host publication | Selected Essays |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Pages | 37-76 |
| Number of pages | 40 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9780197730652 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9780195394061 |
| State | Published - Jan 1 2023 |
| Externally published | Yes |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- General Medicine
- General Arts and Humanities
- General Agricultural and Biological Sciences