Resource allocation in the Covid-19 health crisis: are Covid-19 preventive measures consistent with the Rule of Rescue?
| Autor: | Michael Schlander, Julian W. März, Søren Holm |
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| Přispěvatelé: | University of Zurich, März, Julian W |
| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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medicine.medical_specialty
Health (social science) Distribution (economics) 610 Medicine & health Medical law Covid-19 pandemic Resource Allocation Education COVID-19 Testing Health care Pandemic Epidemiology Rule of Rescue medicine Humans Pandemics Resource allocation in healthcare Public economics SARS-CoV-2 business.industry Health Policy COVID-19 Scientific Contribution 2719 Health Policy Ethics of resource allocation Philosophy of medicine Scale (social sciences) 10222 Institute of Biomedical Ethics and History of Medicine Resource allocation 3306 Health (social science) business 3304 Education |
| Zdroj: | Medicine, Health Care, and Philosophy März, J W, Holm, S & Schlander, M 2021, ' Resource allocation in the Covid-19 health crisis : are Covid-19 preventive measures consistent with the Rule of Rescue? ', Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy . https://doi.org/10.1007/s11019-021-10045-0 |
| ISSN: | 1386-7423 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s11019-021-10045-0 |
| Popis: | The Covid-19 pandemic has led to a health crisis of a scale unprecedented in post-war Europe. In response, a large amount of healthcare resources have been redirected to Covid-19 preventive measures, for instance population-wide vaccination campaigns, large-scale SARS-CoV-2 testing, and the large-scale distribution of protective equipment (e.g., N95 respirators) to high-risk groups and hospitals and nursing homes. Despite the importance of these measures in epidemiological and economic terms, health economists and medical ethicists have been relatively silent about the ethical rationales underlying the large-scale allocation of healthcare resources to these measures. The present paper seeks to encourage this debate by demonstrating how the resource allocation to Covid-19 preventive measures can be understood through the paradigm of the Rule of Rescue, without claiming that the Rule of Rescue is the sole rationale of resource allocation in the Covid-19 pandemic. |
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