Health care systems face the challenge of allocating scarce resources. This paper discusses a 'reference-level' approach using sufficientarian reasoning, which argues for assigning higher priority to individuals with 'unacceptable' health compared to those with 'acceptable' health. The paper explores the normative implications of this approach for priority setting, focusing on sufficientarian principles.
Context and quantification
About the policy
Area
Health
Instrument
Priority setting
Intervention
Reference Level Health Policy
Cost
None
Funding
None
Institutional arrangement
None
Impacts
Stakeholders involved
Policy makers, Researchers
Stakeholders impacted
Healthcare system
Wellbeing
Health
Justice consideration
Distributional
Metadata
| Lead author name | Wouters |
|---|---|
| Lead author gender | Unknown |
| Lead author institution | None |
| Lead author institution location | None |
| Peer reviewed? | true |
| Grey literature? | false |
| Type of paper | Review |
| Volume | None |
| Publication year | 2017 |
| URL / DOI | None |
| Sufficiency mentioned? | false |