Research Catalog

Title

Distributing health care : economic and ethical issues / Paul Dolan, Jan Abel Olsen.

Author

Dolan, Paul, 1968-

Publication

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2002.

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Details

Additional Authors

Olsen, Jan Abel.

Description

xii, 153 pages : illustrations; 22 cm.

Summary

A health economics textbook which is explicit about the distributive implications of economic models, and provides clear rationale for public involvement in the market for health care. Discusses techniques used to aid decision makers when distributing health care.

Series Statement

Oxford medical publications

Uniform Title

Oxford medical publications

Alternative Title

Economic and ethical issues

Subject

• Medical economics
• Medical ethics
• Distribution (Economic theory)
• Medical economics > Moral and ethical aspects
• Resource allocation > Moral and ethical aspects
• Resource allocation > Moral and ethical aspects
• Medical economics > Moral and ethical aspects
• Medical economics
• Medical ethics
• Gesundheitsökonomie
• Verteilungstheorie
• Economische aspecten
• Gezondheidszorg
• Ethische aspecten
• Health Care Rationing
• Economics, Medical
• Health Priorities > ethics
• Ethics, Medical

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [146]-150) and index.

Contents

Health care and health -- Economics and efficiency -- Justice and fairness -- Efficiency-motivated responses to market failures -- Equity-motivated responses to market failures -- Providing health care: finance and regulation -- Economic evaluation techniques -- Ethics of economic evaluation in priority setting -- Towards a new health economics?

ISBN

• 0192632531
• 9780192632531

LCCN

• 2003266297
• 9780192632531

OCLC

• ocm51234889
• 51234889
• SCSB-14656385

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library