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The Moral Relevance of Personal Characteristics in Setting Health Care Priorities

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posted on 2017-06-08, 02:20 authored by Olsen, Jan Abel, Richardson, Jeff, Dolan, Paul, Menzel, Paul
This paper discusses the moral relevance of accounting for various personal characteristics when prioritising between groups of patients. After a review of the results from empirical studies, we inquire into the ethical reasons which might explain - and justify - the views expressed in these surveys. The paper develops a general framework on the causes of ill health and the consequences of treatment. It goes on to inquire into the extents to which a personal characteristic - and its eventual underlying ethical justification - could have any relationships to these causes and consequences. We attempt to disentangle those characteristics that may reflect a potentially relevant reason from those which violate widely accepted principles of social justice.

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2002

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Centre for Health Program Evaluation

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