TY - BOOK ID - 4778553 TI - Setting limits fairly : can we learn to share medical resources? AU - Daniels, Norman AU - Sabin, James E. PY - 2002 SN - 019514936X PB - Oxford Oxford University Press DB - UniCat KW - W 76 Health manpower and services, distribution and characteristics KW - Medical economics KW - Right to health care. KW - Right to health. KW - Social medicine. KW - Moral and ethical aspects. KW - gezondheidszorg KW - gezondheidszorgbeleid (gezondheidszorghervorming, gezondheidszorgsysteem) KW - gezondheidseconomie (gezondheidszorgeconomie) KW - soins de santé KW - politique des soins de santé (réforme des soins de santé, système des soins de santé) KW - économie de la santé (économie des soins de santé) KW - Right to health KW - Social medicine KW - Health care, Right to KW - Health, Right to KW - Medical care, Right to KW - Right to health care KW - Right to medical care KW - Social rights KW - Economics, Medical KW - Health KW - Health economics KW - Hygiene KW - Medical care KW - Medicine KW - Medical sociology KW - Medicine, Social KW - Public health KW - Public welfare KW - Sociology KW - Medical ethics KW - Medical sociologists KW - Moral and ethical aspects KW - Economic aspects KW - Social aspects UR - http://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:4778553 AB - The central idea for this book is that we lack consensus on principles for allocating resources and in the absence of such a consensus we must rely on a fair decision-making process for setting limits on health care. The authors characterize key elements of this process in a variety of health care contexts where such decisions are made- decisions about insurance coverage for new technologies, pharmacy benefit management, the design of physician incentives, contracting for mental health care by public agencies, etc.- and they connect the problem in the U.S. with the same problem in other countries. They provide a cogent analysis of the current situation, lucidly review the usual candidate solutions, and describe their own approach, which represents a clear advance in thinking. Their intended audience is international since the problem of limits cuts across types of health care systems whether or not they have universal coverage. ER -