The distribution of scarce healthcare resources is an increasingly important issue due to
factors such as expensive 'high tech'medicine, longer life expectancies and the rising …

Unhealthy lifestyle contributes significantly to the burden of disease. Scarce medical
resources that could alternatively be spent on interventions to prevent or cure sufferings for …

Scarce healthcare resources can be allocated in many ways. The National Institute for
Health and Clinical Excellence in the UK focuses on the size of the benefit relative to costs …

Background Many publicly-funded health systems apply cost-benefit frameworks in
response to the moral dilemma of how best to allocate scarce healthcare resources …

The concept of lifestyle-related diseases and individual responsibility for health has played
an important role in debates on the fair allocation of increasingly scarce health-care …

This paper argues against incorporating assessments of individual responsibility into
healthcare policies by expanding an existing argument and offering a rebuttal to an …

Medical assistance in dying, which includes voluntary euthanasia and assisted suicide, is
legally permissible in a number of jurisdictions, including the Netherlands, Belgium …

A pandemic may cause a sudden imbalance between available medical resources and
medical needs where fundamental care to a patient cannot be delivered. Inability to fulfil a …

There has been much discussion about how to obtain legitimacy at macro-level priority
setting in health care by use of fair procedures, but how should we consider priority setting …

Whether it is fair to use personal responsibility of patients for their own health as a rationing
criterion in healthcare is a controversial matter. A host of difficulties are associated with the …