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The moral relevance of personal characteristics in setting health care priorities.
Full Abstract
This paper discusses the moral relevance of accounting for various personal characteristics when prioritising between groups of patients. After a review of the results from empirical studies, we discuss the ethical reasons which might explain-and justify-the views expressed in these studies. The paper develops a general framework based upon the causes of ill health and the consequences of treatment. It then turns to the question of the extent to which a personal characteristic-and the eventual underlying ethical justification of its relevance-could have any relationships to these causes and consequences. We attempt to disentangle those characteristics that may reflect a potentially relevant justification from those which violate widely accepted principles of social justice.
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Author information
Author/s: Olsen, Jan Abel (JA); Richardson, Jeff (J); Dolan, Paul (P); Menzel, Paul (P);
Affiliation: Department of Tromso, Institute of Community Medicine, University of Tromsų, 9037 Tromsų, Norway. jano(-atsign-)ism.uit.no
Journal and publication information
Publication Type: Journal Article
Journal: Social science & medicine (1982) (Soc Sci Med), published in England. (Language: eng)
Reference: 2003-Oct; vol 57 (issue 7) : pp 1163-72
Dates: Created 2003/08/05; Completed 2003/10/27; Revised 2005/07/14;
PMID: 12899901, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 11/6/2008)
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Comments and Corrections
CommentIn: Soc Sci Med. 2005 Apr;60(8):1661-4; discussion 1665-6. (PMID: 15686798)
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