The Global Challenge Health Care Rationing

Part one:: How to set priorities

Setting priorities
what is holding us back - inadequate information or inadequate institutions?

Part two:: Governments and rationing

Developments in the Nordic countries - goodbye to the simple solutions
Reactivation of the prioritization process in Finnish health care
Israels basic basket of health services
the importance of being explicitly implicit
Setting priorities American style

Part three:: Priorities in developing countries

Health priority dilemmas in developing countries
Public health priorities and the social determinants of ill health

Part four:: Ethical dilemmas

Accountability for reasonableness in private and public health insurance
Tragic choices in health care
lessons from the Child B case
Fairness as a problem of love and the heart
a clinicians perspective on priority setting
The ethics of decentralizing health care priority setting in Canada

Part five:: Techniques for determining priorities

Priority setting and health technology assessment
beyond evidence based medicine and cost effectiveness analysis
The rationing of surgery
clinical judgement versus priority access scoring

Part six:: Involving the public

Public involvement in health care priority setting
are the methods appropriate and valid?
Rationing health care in New Zealand - how the public has a say
Explicit rationing, deprivation disutility and denial disutility
evidence from a qualitative study

Part seven:: Rationing specific treatments

Priority setting in practice
When sentiments run high
the Di Bella case and others
Increasing demand for accountability
is there a professional response?
Conclusion:: where are we now?
References
Index.