Andrea Klonschinski

The Economics of Resource Allocation in Health Care

Cost-utility, social value, and fairness

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 252
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. September 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 358g
• ISBN-13: 9780367668440
• ISBN-10: 0367668440
• Artikelnr.: 59986993

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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