1st Edition
The Allocation of Health Care Resources An Ethical Evaluation of the 'QALY' Approach
168 Pages
by
Routledge
168 Pages
by
Routledge
168 Pages
by
Routledge
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The competition for limited health care resources is intensifying. We urgently need an acceptable method for deciding how they should be allocated. But the goods that health care produces are of very different kinds. Health care can extend the lives of children and of older people. It can make it possible for a person to walk, when without health care that person would be permanently bedridden;... Read more
Contents: Introduction; The background to the QALY; Age discrimination; Quality of life; Double jeopardy; Public opinion; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.
Biography
John McKie, Peter Singer, Jeff Richardson
’...timely contribution to what is certain to continue to be a vigorous debate about the ethical future of cost-utility analysis.’ Bioethics ’...generating a much more readable and consistent text...thoughtful and thought-provoking...’ Health Economics ’Whatever readers opinions on the QALY, this book offers a useful introduction to the subject as a whole, and to the ethical basis of QALYs in particular.’ Bulletin of Medical Ethics
