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Theories of justice and their implications for priority setting in health care
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It is shown how three theories of distributive justice; utilitarianism, egalitarianism and maximum, can provide a clearer understanding of the normative basis of different priority setting regimes in the health service.About:
This article is published in Journal of Health Economics.The article was published on 1997-12-01. It has received 132 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Distributive justice & Egalitarianism.read more
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QALY maximisation and people's preferences: a methodological review of the literature.
TL;DR: The results from a systematic review of the literature suggest that QALY maximisation is descriptively flawed, and the social value of a health improvement seems to be higher if the person has worse lifetime health prospects and higher if that person has dependents.
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The Most Expensive Medical Conditions In America
TL;DR: There was not a significant association between rank order of treatment costs and disability; the conditions with the greatest disability relative to expenditures were mood disorders, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and arthropathies.
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Orphan drugs and the NHS: should we value rarity?
TL;DR: The justifications for special status for rare diseases are examined and whether the cost effectiveness of drugs for rare or very rare diseases should be treated differently from that of other drugs and interventions is asked.
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Public preferences for the allocation of donor liver grafts for transplantation.
TL;DR: To investigate the nature of public preferences in the allocation of donor liver grafts for transplantation a social conjoint analysis (CA) technique was developed for a questionnaire survey and it was possible to establish the relative weight attached to each characteristic in determining individual's allocation decisions.
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Equity and the economic evaluation of healthcare.
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Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong
TL;DR: The authors argues that our every-day moral codes are an "error theory" based on the presumption of moral facts which, he persuasively argues, don't exist, and refutation of such facts is based on their metaphysical 'queerness' and the observation of cultural relativity.
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Choice, Welfare and Measurement
TL;DR: Sen's contributions have been collected from many journals in the fields of economics and public affairs and from books that were published between 1966 and 1980 as discussed by the authors and are distributed among five topical sections: Choice and Preference, Preference Aggregation, Welfare Comparisons and Social Choice, Non-utility Information, and Social Measurement.
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Just Health Care
TL;DR: Daniels as discussed by the authors argued that health care, both preventive and acute, has a crucial effect on equality of opportunity, and that a principle guaranteeing equality-of-opportunity must underly the distribution of health care services.
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Equity: In Theory and Practice
TL;DR: In "Equity: In Theory and Practice", Peyton Young offers a systematic explanation of what the authors mean by fairness in distributing public resources and burdens, and applies the theory to actual cases.
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Equity and equality in health and health care
Anthony J. Culyer,Adam Wagstaff +1 more
TL;DR: It is suggested that equality of health should be the dominant principle and that equity in health care should therefore entail distributing care in such a way as to get as close as is feasible to an equal distribution of health.