PH 005 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Global Health, Organ Transplantation

• School: UC Merced
• Department: Public Health
• Course: PH 005
• Professor: Professor Gonzalez

Document Summary

Ethical issues in making investment choices in health (3) Ethical issues in making investment choices in health. Central issue in global health is need to make choices among investments to enhance health of population. Necessary on low & middle (resources are lower than what is needed) Cost-effectiveness analysis important tool for making decisions about health investments. Some ways to allocate scarce resources are unfair. Justification for most possible allocation of proposals is 1 or more of 4 basic ethical principles: Allocate healthcare resources in way that the total beneficial impact on health is as large as possible. Producing the greatest benefit that we can. Should try to ensure that everyone has an equal chance at receiving a scarce resource or having access to health care. Providing health care on basis of who is badly off. Involve transparency about how decisions are made & representation from stakeholders affected by results of process.