Resource allocation in the Covid-19 health crisis
Are Covid-19 preventive measures consistent with the Rule of Rescue
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21702468 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Julian W März (0000-0001-7394-4617, German Cancer Research Center, corresponding author), Søren Holm (0000-0003-1411-1855, University of Oslo), Michael Schlander (0000-0002-3489-5856, German Cancer Research Center) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 24 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 487-492 |
| Publication date | 2021-12-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Medicine Health Care and Philosophy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1386-7423 • E-ISSN: 1572-8633 |
| Publisher | Springer Science and Business Media LLC (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1007/s11019-021-10045-0 |
| PMID | 34398349 |
| OpenAlex | W3194786063 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 30 |
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
Actuarial science · Business · Disease · Economic growth · Economics · Environmental health · Geography · Health care · Health care rationing · Medical law · Pandemic · Philosophy of medicine · Political science · Population · Public health · Resource allocation · Disaster Response and Management · Healthcare cost, quality, practices · Healthcare Systems and Challenges · Law · Medicine · Nursing
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| Citations per year | 0.5 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2022 - 2024 (3) |
| Highly cited | No |