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The Economics of Resource Allocation in Health Care: Cost-utility, social value, and fairness - Routledge Advances in Social Economics Andrea Klonschinski 1st edition
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The Economics of Resource Allocation in Health Care: Cost-utility, social value, and fairness - Routledge Advances in Social Economics
Andrea Klonschinski
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.
252 pages, 5 black & white illustrations, 5 black & white tables, 5 black & white line drawings
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | April 4, 2016 |
| ISBN13 | 9781138184169 |
| Publishers | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Pages | 238 |
| Dimensions | 242 × 192 × 20 mm · 538 g |
| Language | English |
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