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Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 21 avhandlingar innehållade orden Health service ethics.
1. Doctors Behind Borders : The Ethics of Skilled Worker Emigration
Sammanfattning : This doctoral thesis within applied ethics consists of four articles together with a cover essay. All articles concern the ethics of skilled health worker emigration from under-served and resourcepoor regions, often referred to as ‘medical brain drain’. LÄS MER
2. Explorations of the Relationship Between the right to Make Decisions and Moral Responsibility in Healthcare
Sammanfattning : People intuitively think that there is a strong connection between having a right to make decisions and to be morally responsible for those decisions. This thesis explores the relationship between these notions in the context of healthcare. The exploration particularly focuses on what I call fringe decisional agents, e.g. LÄS MER
3. Healthcare Priority Setting and Rare Diseases : What Matters When Reimbursing Orphan Drugs
Sammanfattning : The rarity of a disease can give rise to challenges that differ from conventional diseases. For example, rarity hampers research and development of new drugs, and patients with severe, rare diseases have limited access to qualified treatments. When drugs are available, clinical evidence has higher uncertainty and the drugs can be very expensive. LÄS MER
4. Asking the public : Citizens´ views on priority setting and resource allocation in democratically governed healthcare
Sammanfattning : Resource allocation in publicly funded healthcare systems is inevitably linked with priority setting between different patient groups and between different service areas, so-called meso level priorities. Behind every priority-setting decision (investments, reallocating or rationing), are values affecting both the content of the decisions and how the decisions are made. LÄS MER
5. No Heroics, Please : Mapping Deceased Donation Practices in a Catalan Hospital
Sammanfattning : This thesis presents an in-depth ethnographic mapping of deceased donation in a Catalan hospital. A unique site in terms of leading edge technoscientific practices, high rates of donation and its consolidated specialised team of transplant coordinators (TCs). LÄS MER
