The Allocation of Health Care Resources: An Ethical Evaluation of the 'Qaly' Approach

ISBN-13: 9780367605186 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 168 str.

John McKie; Peter Singer; Jeff Richardson

Opis

The competition for limited health care resources is intensifying. We urgently need an acceptable method for deciding how they should be allocated. The Quality-Adjusted Life Year, or QALY, is the most developed proposal for such allocation. In this book a distinguished team of ethicists and economists defend the core of the QALY proposal: that heal

Recenzje

’...timely contribution to what is certain to continue to be a vigorous debate about the ethical future of cost-utility analysis.’ Bioethics ’...generating a much more readable and consistent text...thoughtful and thought-provoking...’ Health Economics ’Whatever readers opinions on the QALY, this book offers a useful introduction to the subject as a whole, and to the ethical basis of QALYs in particular.’ Bulletin of Medical Ethics

Spis treści

Contents: Introduction; The background to the QALY; Age discrimination; Quality of life; Double jeopardy; Public opinion; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.

O autorze

John McKie, Peter Singer, Jeff Richardson