Overview

The central idea behind this book is that we lack consensus on principles for allocating medical resources, and in the absence of such a consensus we must develop and rely on a fair decision-making process for setting limits on health care. The authors provide an analysis of the current situation, reviewing typical solutions, before describing their own approach. The audience for the book is global since the problem of limited resources cuts across all types of health care systems whether or not they have universal coverage. In its first edition Setting Limits Fairly stimulated considerable work on setting priorities in health care. The second edition includes a new chapter on the international response to accountability for reasonableness and two new chapters on applications of the approach in developing countries and in human rights approaches to health.

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Author:   Norman Daniels (Professor of Philosophy, Professor of Philosophy, Tufts University, USA) ,  James E. Sabin (Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, USA)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Edition:   2nd Revised edition
Dimensions:   Width: 23.20cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 16.00cm
Weight:   0.404kg
ISBN:  

9780195325959

ISBN 10:   0195325958
Pages:   280
Publication Date:   06 March 2008
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1. Our Lives in Whose Hands ; 2. Justice, Scarcity, and Public Accountability for Limits ; 3. The Legitimacy Problem and Fair Process ; 4. Accountability for Reasonableness ; 5. Managing Last-Chance Therapies ; 6. Lung Volume Reduction Surgery: A Case Study ; 7. Making Pharmacy Benefits Accountable for Reasonableness ; 8. Indirect Limit Setting: Accountability for Physician Incentives ; 9. Accountability for Reasonableness in Action: Public Sector Mental Health Care Contracting ; 10. An International Learning Curve ; 11. Learning to Share Medical Resources ; 12. Revisiting the International Learning Curve ; 13. Developing Country Applications of Accountability for Reasonableness ; 14. New Uses for Accountability for Reasonableness ; Conclusion: What Next?

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""A valuable addition to the discourse on health policy making.""--Doody's

A valuable addition to the discourse on health policy making. --Doody's

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