Ethical Dimensions of Health Policy - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0195140702 ISBN 13: 9780195140705

Publisher: OUP USA, 2002

Synopsis

This book takes the conversation between bioethics and health policy to a new level. Moving beyond principles and normative frameworks, bioethicists writing in the volume consider the actual policy problems faced by health care systems, while policy-makers reflect on the moral values inherent in both the process and content of health policy. The result is a vigorous dialogue with some of the nation's leading experts at the interface of ethics and health policy. the book provides a history of the values implicit in U.S. health policy, a discussion of the federal and state roles in policy making, an ethical examination of the social goals expressed through various policies, an analysis of the role of public opinion in the creation of health policy, and an exploration of the value of the private sector in health policy. In addition, the authors examine some of the major ethical controversies in health policy, such as the challenge of balancing ethical concerns with economic realities, the need to allocate scarce health resources, the call for heightened accountability, and the impact of various policies on vulnerable populations. The book concludes with an examination of the ethical issues in health services research, including the threats to privacy that arise in such research. To a greater extent than any previous volume, it establishes a strong connection between the disciplines of medical ethics and health policy.

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Review

This book provides a broad and at the same time rigorous introduction to the role of ethics in health policy. It is an essential read for anyone with health care policy making responsibilities, but also an interesting, enlightening and useful read for health care providers, personnel and for patients trying to make sense of the way in which health care is distributed. (Public Health, 117)

About the Author

Marion Danis is at National Institutes of Health. Carolyn Clancy is at Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, Maryland.

Edition details

• Publisher: OUP USA
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0195140702
• ISBN 13: 9780195140705
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 424
• Editor: Danis Marion, Clancy Carolyn, Churchill Larry R.