How Health Care Can Be Cost-Effective and Fair

How Health Care Can Be Cost-Effective and Fair considers how healthcare can be both cost-effective and ethical. Daniel M. Hausman defends a major role for cost-effective reasoning in healthcare distribution, while also recognizing its serious limitations.

List of contents

• Introduction


• Chapter 1: Measuring Health and the "Effectiveness" of Health Care


• Chapter 2: Cost-Effectiveness, Well-Being, and Freedom


• Chapter 3: Conceptual, Technical, and Ethical Problems with Cost Effectiveness


• Chapter 4: Theories of Fair Distribution


• Chapter 5: What Constitutes a Fair Allocation of Health Care?


• Chapter 6: Fair Chances


• Chapter 7: Does Cost-Effectiveness Fail to Give Sufficient Priority to Severity?


• Chapter 8 To Aggregate or Not to Aggregate


• Chapter 9: Discrimination


• Chapter 10: Health Care: Respectful, Cost Effective, and Fair


• Acknowledgments and Sources


• References


• Index

About the author

Daniel M. Hausman is Research Professor at the Center for Population-Level Bioethics, Rutgers University. His research addresses various issues between economics and philosophy, the measurement of health, and the allocation of health care.

Summary

How Health Care Can Be Cost-Effective and Fair considers how healthcare can be both cost-effective and ethical. Daniel M. Hausman defends a major role for cost-effective reasoning in healthcare distribution, while also recognizing its serious limitations.

Additional text

The book is well organized, providing chapter summaries and smooth transitions,...the text is consistently well written.

Product details

• Authors: Daniel M. Hausman, Daniel M. (Research Professor Hausman, Hausman Daniel M.
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.03.2023
• EAN: 9780197656969
• ISBN: 978-0-19-765696-9
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: POPULATION LEVEL BIOETHICS SERIES
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Disease & Health Issues, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Communication Studies, Illness & addiction: social aspects, Ethics & moral philosophy, Interdisciplinary studies, Ethics and moral philosophy, Health, illness and addiction: social aspects