Daniel Wang

Health Technology Assessment, Courts and the Right to Healthcare

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book analyses the impact of courts and litigation on the way health systems set priorities and make rationing decisions. It focuses on how the judicial protection of the right to healthcare can impact the institutionalization, functioning and centrality of Health Technology Assessment (HTA) for decisions about the funding of treatment.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 202
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Dezember 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 481g
• ISBN-13: 9781138554757
• ISBN-10: 1138554758
• Artikelnr.: 59988168

Autorenporträt

Daniel Wei Liang Wang is Associate Professor at Fundação Getúlio Vargas (FGV) School of Law. Before joining FGV, he was a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Health and Human Rights at Queen Mary University of London and a Law Fellow at the London School of Economics, where he taught Human Rights Law. Daniel holds a PhD in Law (LSE), an MSc in Philosophy and Public Policies (LSE), a Master in Law (University of São Paulo), a BA in Social Sciences (University of São Paulo) and a BA in Law (University of São Paulo). He was a member of the National Health Service (NHS) Central London Research Ethics Committee (2017-2019).

Inhaltsangabe

1 Introduction
2 Priority-Setting and the Right to Healthcare: Synergies and Tensions on
the Path to Universal Health Coverage
3 Priority-Setting and Health Technology Assessment
4 Brazil - Right to Healthcare Litigation: The Problem and the
Institutional Responses
5 Colombia - Demanding But Undermining Fair Priority-Setting Via Courts
6 England - From Wednesbury Unreasonableness to Accountability for
Reasonableness
7 Conclusion - Institutionalizing, Controlling, Limiting and Circumventing
HTA Via Courts