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Individual responsibility, justice and access to health care [PDF]

open access: yes, 2001
The aim of this thesis is to examine whether it is morally defensible to use lifestyle as one of the criteria for rationing health care. I argue that it is not justifiable to use former lifestyle to select patients for treatment.
Norton, Lavinia Jane
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The “Elderly” in Medicine: Ethical Issues Surrounding This Outdated and Discriminatory Term

open access: yesInquiry: The Journal of Health Care Organization, Provision, and Financing, 2019
The objective of this study was to investigate and describe how the use of the term “elderly” contributes to bias and problems within the medical system. A systematic review of the relevant literature and history was conducted.
Javad Hekmat-panah MD
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Taoism, bioethics, and the COVID-19 pandemic

open access: yesTzu Chi Medical Journal, 2022
The stress that the COVID-19 pandemic has placed on health systems internationally has forced difficult decisions concerning the rationing of medical care and has put the bioethical structures that inform those choices under scrutiny.
Liam C Butchart
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Age-Rationing in Health Care: Flawed Policy, Personal Virtue

open access: yes, 2005
The age-rationing debate of fifteen years ago will inevitably reemerge as health care costs escalate. All age-rationing proposals should be judged in light of the current system of rationing health care by price in the U.S., and the resulting pattern of ...
Churchill, Larry R.
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Principles of Justice in Health Care Rationing

open access: yes, 2000
This paper compares and contrasts three different substantive (as opposed to procedural) principles of justice for making health care priority-setting or “rationing” decisions: need principles, maximising principles and egalitarian principles.
Cookson, Richard, Dolan, Paul
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Health care rationing: nursing perspectives

open access: yes, 1995
Ideas currently postulated around the way health care should be delivered and costs controlled, often referred to as health care rationing, are increasingly coming to dominate the agenda of health care in the 1990s.
John S G Wells, Wells, John S.G.
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What should guide priority setting in health care? A study of public preferences in Sweden

open access: yesNordic Journal of Health Economics, 2019
Priority setting criteria in health care are commonly set by politicians on behalf of the public. It is desirable that these criteria are in line with societal preferences in order to gain acceptance for decisions on what health services to provide and ...
Linda Ryen   +2 more
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“No decisions about us without us”? Individual healthcare rationing decisions in a fiscal ice age

open access: yes, 2011
Jill Russell and colleagues examine whether patients and the public should be involved in rationing decisions about individual patient access to healthcare ...
A. Burnett   +11 more
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Moral Judgments in the Rationing of Health Care Resources

open access: yes, 1997
Social workers, physicians, and nurses from a major urban teaching hospital were assessed and compared regarding their attitudes toward the rationing of health care.
McLellan, Linda J.   +3 more
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Policy-making for Rationing in the Healthcare System: A review to provide suggestions for Iran

open access: yesRāhburdhā-yi Mudīriyyat dar Niẓām-i Salāmat, 2018
Background: Rationing is considered as a solution to control the costs and increase the efficiency in using the limited resources of the healthcare system.
Keivan Rahmani   +5 more
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