Editorial: Ethics in health care priority-setting: a north-south double standard?

The Ethics of Priority Setting for Health

This project continues a strong record of research in the Department of Bioethics that is aimed at facilitating fair and effective allocation of resources to promote health. The research involves a variety of methodologies including conceptual analysis and empirical methods including survey research, focus groups to promote democratic deliberation, secondary analysis of large datasets, and meta...

Global Developments in Priority Setting in Health

Countries around the world are experiencing an ever-increasing need to make choices in investments in health and healthcare. This makes it incumbent upon them to have formal processes in place to optimize the legitimacy of eventual decisions. There is now growing experience among countries of the implementation of stakeholder participation, and a developing convergence of methods to support dec...

Priority Setting: Right Answer to a Far Too Narrow Question?; Comment on “Global Developments in Priority Setting in Health”

In their recent editorial, Baltussen and colleagues provide a concise summary of the prevailing discourse on priority-setting in health policy. Their perspective is entirely consistent with current practice, yet they unintentionally demonstrate the narrowness and moral precariousness of that discourse and practice. I respond with demonstrations of the importance of ‘interrogating scarcity’ in a...

Characterising Needs in Health Care Priority Setting

Ethics and priority setting in Oregon.