Barriers to the fair allocation of healthcare resources

Harefuah

Volumn 142, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 103-108+159

  Benbassat, Jochanan ^a  

^a MYERS JDC BROOKDALE INSTITUTE   (Israel)

Author keywords

Doctor patient relations; Fair distribution of health resources; Health care allocation; Health care rationing; Medical ethics

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL PRACTICE; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH ECONOMICS; HEALTH SERVICE; MEDICAL ETHICS; PHYSICIAN; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; REVIEW;

DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE RATIONING; HUMANS; ISRAEL; MARKETING; PHYSICIANS; RESOURCE ALLOCATION;

EID: 0037330936     PISSN: 00177768     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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