The moral relevance of personal characteristics in setting health care priorities

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 57, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 1163-1172

  Olsen, Jan Abel ^a,e   Richardson, Jeff ^b   Dolan, Paul ^c,e   Menzel, Paul ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^d PACIFIC LUTHERAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Consequences; Ethics; Health care priorities; Personal responsibilities

Indexed keywords

ETHICS; HEALTH CARE; MORALITY;

CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EMPIRICISM; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH SERVICE; JUSTICE; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICAL LIABILITY; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PROCESS MODEL; REVIEW; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

EID: 0043170825     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0277-9536(02)00492-6     Document Type: Article

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