Public and Private Choices in Organ Donation
Public and Private Choices in Organ Donation
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器官捐赠的公共和私人选择
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2007
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Marlies Ahlert
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作者:
Marlies Ahlert
Organ donation and allocation form a particularly instructive case of health care provision. On the one hand, due to the necessity of resource pooling, there is a clear collective good aspect. On the other hand, there is a strong moral case in favor of purely private organization of cadaveric organ donation, and allocation in private clubs. But can such clubs ever be successful? Simple decision theoretic modeling relying on both, standard expected utility theory and prospect theory is applied to model the decision making of individuals under different institutions of organ donation and allocation. Conclusions on an equilibrium club size are derived. Empirical data on frequencies of organ transplantation and results from questionnaires on the willingness to donate are used to derive some conclusions about the likely success or failure of different institutional forms of organ allocation.