Health Sciences 2610F/G Chapter Notes - Chapter Page. 143-166: Intracranial Aneurysm, Daniel Callahan, Consequentialism
26 Mar 2017
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Allocating scarce medical resources: health care spending has risen in the states. This is due to the aging population, unnecessary tests and procedures, expensive ct and mri scans and expensive drugs: rationing is a way to control health care costs. This consists of limiting medical services within predetermined levels which results in scarce medical resources. Economic scarcity is driven by the aim to control costs. Physical scarcity pertains to issues of availability of organs for transplant: when allocating scarce medical resources there there will be trade offs between equality and fairness. Setting priorities justice concerns what is due or owed to persons especially with respect to bene ts and burdens: distributive justice is concerned with how social goods like health care should be distributed across persons. There are four main theories of distributive justice: utilitarian or consequentialist. Theories of justice based on principle of utility: a policy is just when it maximizes overall utility, libertarian.
