Klonschinski The Economics of Resource Allocation in Health Care

Cost-utility, social value, and fairness
Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-1-317-29182-4
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 252 Seiten

Reihe: Routledge Advances in Social Economics

The question of how to allocate scarce medical resources has become an important public policy issue in recent decades. Cost-Utility Analysis is the most commonly used method for determining the allocation of these resources, but this book counters the argument that overcoming its inherent imbalances is simply a question of implementing methodological changes.

The Economics of Resource-Allocation in Healthcare represents the first comprehensive analysis of equity weighting in health care resource allocation that offers a fundamental critique of its basic framework. It offers a heterodox account of health economics, putting the discourse on economic evaluation into it broader socio-political context. Such an approach broadens the debate on fairness in health economics and ties it in with deeper rooted problems in moral philosophy. Ultimately, this interdisciplinary study calls for the adoption of a fundamentally different paradigm to address the distribution of scarce medical resources.

This book will be of interest to policy makers, health care professionals or Post-Graduate students looking to broaden their understanding of the economics of the healthcare system.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Klonschinski, Andrea

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Wirtschaftstheorie, Wirtschaftsphilosophie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Fertigungsindustrie Pharmaindustrie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction 2. The Utility Concept in Economics: From Pleasure Maximization to Rational Choice 3. On the Rise, Rationale, and Authority of Economic Evaluation 4. The Empirical Failure of CUA and the Approach of Equity Weighting 5. Values, Weights, and Trade-Offs: The Economic Conception of Choice 6. Inconsistencies in the Determination and Measurement of Social Values 7. On the Normative Status of Empirically Elicited Prioritization Preferences 8. Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Andrea Klonschinski is a research and teaching assistant at the Department of Philosophy at the University of Regensburg, Germany.