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Record Nr.

UNINA9910783654903321

Autore

Dracopolou Souzy

Titolo

Ethics and Values in Healthcare Management [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hoboken, : Taylor and Francis, 2013

ISBN

1-134-75723-9

1-280-46375-9

0-203-01037-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (213 p.)

Collana

Professional Ethics

Disciplina

174.2

174/.2

Soggetti

Health services administration

Managed care plans (Medical care)

Medical ethics

Moral and ethical aspects

Managed care plans (Medical care) - Moral and ethical aspects

Delivery of Health Care

Ethics, Medical

Managed Care Programs

Health Care Quality, Access, and Evaluation

Ethics, Clinical

Patient Care Management

Insurance, Health

Ethics, Professional

Health Care

Insurance

Health Services Administration

Financing, Organized

Ethics

Economics

Humanities

Health Care Economics and Organizations

Medical Care Plans

Public Health

Health & Biological Sciences

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese



Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Ethics And values In health Care management; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Contributors; Series Editor'spreface; Introduction: The Place of Ethics in Health Care Management; 1. Ethics and Management - Oil and Water?; 2. Economics, Qalys and Medical Ethics: a Health Economist's Perspective; 3. Should Managers Adopt the Medical Ethic? Reflections on Health Care Management; 4. Management, Ethics and the Allocation of Resources; 5. Impossible Problems? the Limits to the Very Idea of Reasoning About the Management of Health Services; 6. Age as a Criterion of Health Care Rationing

7. Health Care in Poland: Dilemmas of Transformation8. Ethics and the Management of Health Care in Greece: a Health Economist's Perspective; 9. Regulation of the French Health Care System: Economic and Ethical Aspects; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Healthcare management is a burning issue at the moment and this timely and topical book explores the ethical issues that arise in the context of healthcare management. Among the topics discussed are healthcare rationing, including an exposition and defence of the Qaly criterion of healthcare rationing and an examination of the contribution that ethical theory can make to the rationing debate, an analysis of how managers can be preoccupied with the goals of management and the values of doctors simultaneously, an outline of potential guidelines towards formulating a cohesion of healthcare manage