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“It wasn’t Luck: God Wants me Here for a Reason”: Perceptions of Luck Among US Patients and Its Relationships to Other Factors Among US Patients
Patients may feel “lucky” or “unlucky” regarding disease, but questions arise about what they mean. Interviews suggest that US patients often invoke...
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Premature Death as a Normative Concept
The practical goal of preventing premature death seems uncontroversial. But the term ‘premature death’ is vague with several, sometimes conflicting...
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From Sufficient Health to Sufficient Responsibility
The idea of using responsibility in the allocation of healthcare resources has been criticized for, among other things, too readily abandoning people...
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“Building the plane while flying it” Reflections on pandemic preparedness and response; an organisational case study
BackgroundThe COVID-19 pandemic provided a unique opportunity to learn about acute health organisations experiences implementing a pandemic response...
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Irresponsibly Infertile? Obesity, Efficiency, and Exclusion from Treatment
Many countries tightly ration access to publicly funded fertility treatments such as in vitro fertilisation (IVF). One basis for excluding people...
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Systematic Review of Public Preferences for the Allocation of Donor Organs for Transplantation: Principles of Distributive Justice
BackgroundSolid organ transplantation is the treatment of choice for organ failure, but donor organs are a scarce resource because of a large...
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Unexplained health inequality – is it unfair?
IntroductionAccurate measurement of health inequities is indispensable to track progress or to identify needs for health equity policy interventions....
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For the Sake of Justice: Should We Prioritize Rare Diseases?
This article is about the justifiability of accepting worse cost effectiveness for orphan drugs, that is, treatments for rare diseases, in a publicly...
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Eigenverantwortung als Verteilungskriterium im Gesundheitswesen
Definition of the problem : Personal responsibility of patients for their own health is often cited as a means of allocating health care resources. It...
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Gambling, Exchange Systems, and Moralities
History and ethnography show us that, across societies of the past and present, gambling varies considerably with respect to its organization, social...
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Health Inequalities and Why They Matter
Health inequalities are of concern both becausestudying them may help one learn how to improvehealth and because health inequalities may beunjust....
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Is There a Moral Duty to Die?
In recent years, there has been a great deal of philosophical discussion about the alleged moral right to die. If there is such a moral right, then...
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The Health Role Expectations Index: A measure of alignment, disparity, and change
Growing controversy over mutual role expectations of physician, nurse, and consumer underlines the need to clarify attitudes toward their...