The Economics of Resource Allocation in Health Care: Cost-Utility, Social Value, and Fairness

ISBN-13: 9780367668440 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 252 str.

Andrea Klonschinski

Opis

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 methodol

Spis treści

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

O autorze

Andrea Klonschinski is a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Kiel.