Dilemma of equity in resource allocation
Boltho Massarelli, V.
Agressologie Revue Internationale de Physio-Biologie et de Pharmacologie Appliquees Aux Effets de l'Agression 31(10): 741-742
1990
ISSN/ISBN: 0002-1148 PMID: 2099649 Document Number: 365946
The increasing complexity of health care systems in Europe, the financial limits of the public sector one hand, and a political consensus in favour of equal accessibility to services on the other, are at the origin of a widening gap between "individual" ethics (i.e. of health care professionals) and societal ethics. An additional conflict is that between equal accessibility and operational and distributive efficiency.