Ethics in American Health 2: An Ethical Framework for Health System Reform
Jennifer Prah Ruger
Yale University – School of Medicine
October 2008
American Journal of Public Health, Vol. 98, No. 10, pp. 1756-1763, 2008
Abstract:
I trace the evolution of ethical approaches to health policy in the United States and examine a number of critical unresolved issues pertaining to the current set of frameworks. Several themes emerge. First, fair procedures claim more attention than substantive and procedural principles. Second, in the case of public deliberation, more focus has been placed on factors such as procedural mechanisms than on understanding how individuals and groups value different aspects of health and agree on health-related decisions. Third, the nation needs workable frameworks to guide collective choices about valuable social ends and their trade-offs; purely procedural strategies are limited in illuminating overarching health policy and ethics questions. There is a need to integrate consequential and procedural approaches to health ethics and policy.
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Filed under: Literature Review | Tagged: Health Reform
