ETHICS & ALLOCATION--FOUNDATIONS OF AMERICAN HEALTH CARE

描述：申请者要求在三年内获得75,000美元的 出版补助金，负责研究和撰写一本关于 美国医疗保健政策的基础。这样做的目的是为了 批判性地审视 福利经济学及其与分析技术的关系 在医疗保健政策方面。尤其是，重点将放在 理性决策和社会选择理论的基本假设 在卫生政策的背景下将两者联系起来。 法登博士提出的这本书将与麦迪逊博士合著 来自约翰·艾森伯格博士、罗伯特博士的关键投入的力量 卡普兰，艾伦·布坎南博士和弗兰克·理查德博士。这本书应该是 分为五个部分。第一部分将提供一个 卫生政策分析的形式化方法及其应用简介 与现代资源配置原则的概念联系 经济理论。第二部分从道德和观念两个方面进行论述 这些正式方法的基础。第三部分将考察 支持和反对使用正式方法的伦理论据 健康政策。第四部分是对正规化的现状进行分析 方法在法律和卫生政策方面。第五部分提出 一个选择和使用形式化方法的积极程序 健康政策。这一部分将包括指定 适当的背景、方法限制和道德要求 这些方法的使用。 申请者之所以承担这个项目，是因为他们相信 没有一本著述的书将这些重要领域联系起来 在关键框架内进行卫生政策分析。这样一本书 将澄清医疗保健政策问题，这些问题对理性 医疗改革。

DESCRIPTION: The applicants request $75,000 over three years for a Publication Grant to undertake research and writing for a book on the foundations of American health care policy. The purpose is to take a critical look at the moral foundations and conceptual underpinnings of welfare economics and their relationships to analytic techniques in health care policy. In particular, the focus will be on the underlying assumptions of rational decision and social choice theory that connect the two in the context of health policy. The book proposed by Dr. Faden would be co-authored with Dr. Madison Powers with critical input from Dr. John Eisenberg, Dr. Robert Kaplan, Dr. Allen Buchanan and Dr. Frank Richard. The book would be divided into five parts. The first part would provide an introduction to formal methods of health policy analysis and their conceptual connections to principles of resource allocation in modern economic theory. The second part would address the moral and conceptual foundations of these formal methods. The third part would examine the ethical arguments for and against the use of formal methods in health policy. The fourth part would analyze the status of formal methods in law and health policy. The fifth part would put forward a positive program for the choice among and use of formal methods in health policy. This section would include criteria specifying the proper contexts, methodological constraints, and ethical requirements for the use of these methods. The applicants are undertaking this project because they believe that no authored book has appeared which links these important areas of health policy analysis in a critical framework. Such a book would clarify health care policy issues which are vital to rational health care reform.