Distributing health care [[electronic resource] ] : principles, practices and policies / / edited and introduced by Niall Maclean

• Pubblicazione: Exeter, : Imprint Academic, c2007
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (265 p.)
• Disciplina: 362.1
• Soggetto topico: Health services accessibility - Moral and ethical aspects; Public health - Moral and ethical aspects
• Altri autori: MacleanNiall <1972->
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Contents; Front Matter; Title Page; Publisher Information; Notes on Contributers; Introduction; Distributing Health Care; The Public Funding of Health Care; Philosophical Approaches to The Problem of Health Care Distribution; The UK System of Health Funding and Resource Allocation: What Ethical Foundations?; Better Ways to Allocate Health Resources in the UK?; Just Caring: The Ethical Challenges of Health Care Reform in the USA; The Ethics of Access to Health Care in Australia; Equity & the Ethics of the South African Health System; Back Matter; References; Also Available
• Sommario/riassunto: How ought a society to distribute its publicly funded healthcare resources? Few questions are in more urgent need of an answer. This multidisciplinary investigation brings together the insights of philosophy, clinical science, health economics, operational research and public policy analysis....
• Titolo autorizzato: Distributing health care
• ISBN: 1-283-44529-8; 9786613445292; 1-84540-276-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910789785303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: St. Andrews studies in philosophy and public affairs.