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The uncomfortable truths of healthcare prioritisation / Puyol González, Àngel, 1968- (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
A correct approach to healthcare prioritisation requires accepting certain uncomfortable ethical and political truths. This article sets out and analyses some of these truths. Specifically, these are: that health prioritisation (i) is inevitable; (ii) means the denial of available resources to patients who need them for some kind of health benefit; (iii) is an issue of social justice and not of mere equitable access to the health system; (iv) is an ethical issue, which is not resolved through mere clinical and/or economic reasoning and will not be resolved through applying a morally painless ethical criterion; and (v) demands a commitment to solidarity above individual freedom. [...]
Madrid : Springer Healthcare Ibérica, 2018
Prioritising Health Services or Muddling Throug, 2018, p. 125-143

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