Affirmative action in healthcare resource allocation
Vaccines, ventilators and race
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21504622 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Hazem Zohny (0000-0002-7734-2186, Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, Faculty of Philosophy University of Oxford Oxford United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, corresponding author), Ben Davies (0000-0003-4612-7894, Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, Faculty of Philosophy University of Oxford Oxford United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland), Dominic Wilkinson (0000-0003-3958-8633, Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, Faculty of Philosophy University of Oxford Oxford United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 36 |
| Issue | 9 |
| Pages | 970-977 |
| Publication date | 2022-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Bioethics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0269-9702 • E-ISSN: 1467-8519 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/bioe.13067 |
| PMID | 35912506 |
| OpenAlex | W4289202322 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 1 |
This article is about the potential justification for deploying some form of affirmative action (AA) in the context of healthcare, and in particular in relation to the pandemic. We call this Affirmative Action in healthcare Resource Allocation (AARA). Specifically, we aim to investigate whether the rationale and justifications for using prioritization policies based on race in education and employment apply in a healthcare setting, and in particular to the COVID‐19 pandemic. We concentrate in this article on vaccines and ventilators because these are both highly scarce resources in the pandemic, and there has been a need to develop policies for allocating them. However, as will become clear, the ethical considerations relating to them may diverge. We first set out two rationales for AAs and what they might entail in a healthcare setting. We then consider some disanalogies between AA and AARA, as well as the different implications of AARA for allocating ventilators as opposed to vaccines. Finally, we consider some of the practical ways in which AARA could be implemented, and conclude by responding to some key objections
Affirmative action · Business · Economics · Health care · Law and economics · Management · Pandemic · Political science · Prioritization · Process management · Public relations · Resource allocation · Sociology · Computer Science · Global Maternal and Child Health · Healthcare Systems and Challenges · Law · Medicine · Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0.5 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2024 (3) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |