HLST 4010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Pressure Ulcer, Distributive Justice
31 Jan 2018
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Hlst 4010 introduction to health care ethics. Challenges to chs system, focus on resource implications. Canadian healthcare system (chs) key challenges : esou(cid:396)(cid:272)es a(cid:396)e li(cid:373)ited & al(cid:396)eady (cid:858)st(cid:396)et(cid:272)hed(cid:859) Key resources include personnel and the services they provide. I. e. , patients, public, government, staff etc: resources constraints can lead to ineffective or inequitable healthcare services. Funding constrains (i. e. financial) may lead to the need to ration resources. Macro allocation: resource decisions made at federal or provincial level. Meso allocation: within a health facility or institutional level. Micro allocation: individual patient or groups of patients. Utilitarianism: moral theory promoted by j. bentham and j. s. mills. Moral decisions are based upon consequences of actions which produce the greatest good than negative consequences for the largest number of people. Rationing: limited resources; withholding beneficial medical treatment from particular individuals or groups. Commodification: treatment of something as a commodity.
