Personal responsibility for health as a rationing criterion: Why we don't like it and why maybe we should

Journal of Medical Ethics

Volumn 34, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 871-874

  Buyx, Alena M ^a  

^a Harvard Program in Ethics and Health   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ETHICS; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; LIFESTYLE; MEDICAL ETHICS; MORALITY; PATIENT ADVOCACY; REVIEW; SOCIAL JUSTICE;

DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; ETHICS, MEDICAL; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH CARE RATIONING; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; LIFE STYLE; MORAL OBLIGATIONS; PATIENT ADVOCACY; SOCIAL JUSTICE;

EID: 57149105162     PISSN: 03066800     EISSN: 14734257     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jme.2007.024059     Document Type: Review

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