... could result in a two - tier health service which is one of the reasons why we caution against blanket exclusions . As Bynoe has suggested , in the future the private health care sector may find it necessary or desirable to adopt ...
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"Wicked ethical problems have been generated by precision medicine due to both the wiliness of cancer and the fragmentation of health care financing in the United States.
But then new social facts, such as new medical technologies that are costly and marginally beneficial, may disrupt what had been easy and obvious applications of one of these widely shared ethical judgments.
'Medical need' is a factor in health care access decision-making, but merit-considerations are becoming important too. In the shortening of waiting time, priority arrangements are considered and/or introduced, based on non-medical criteria.
controlled in the institutions, and thereafter, institutions can improve quality and adjust user services focusing ... Quality experts focus on two main areas, the technical needs of quality control and the human dimensions of quality ...
Since the first edition of Who Shall Live? (1974), over 100,000 students, teachers, physicians, and general readers from more than a dozen fields have found this book to be a reader-friendly, authoritative introduction to economic concepts ...
Discusses the ethics of health care resource allocation, based on the premise that society has an ethical obligation to ensure health care.