Health care priority setting is about how to distribute scarce health care resources. This course presents the philosophy of health care priority setting with a special focus on ethics and epistemology. The course focuses on philosophical questions raised by priority setting, such as when all individuals cannot have all treatments from which they may benefit: how should these benefits be distributed? And, how can decision-makers know that some treatments are beneficial, and some are not?
The Ethics of Health Care Priority Setting
7.5 creditsThe Ethics of Health Care Priority Setting, 7.5 credits
Spring 2025, Full-time, Linköping
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