Problems of Prioritisation and Our Duty to Care
- 1 April 1991
- journal article
- Published by Emerald Publishing in Journal of Management in Medicine
- Vol. 5 (4) , 35-39
- https://doi.org/10.1108/02689239110007093
Abstract
Limited resources must be invested wisely. Society's humanitarian duty to care must be satisfied as well as the economic imperative to use resources rationally. This cannot properly be achieved by reduction of all considerations to a single number which represents a ratio of health gain to resource cost.Keywords
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