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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.

Keywords: Health policy, health reform, ethics

JEL Classifications: I10, I18

Working Paper Series

Date posted: November 08, 2008 ; Last revised: November 08, 2008

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Ruger, Jennifer Prah, Ethics in American Health 2: An Ethical Framework for Health System Reform (October 2008). American Journal of Public Health, Vol. 98, No. 10, pp. 1756-1763, 2008. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1296106


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Jennifer Prah Ruger (Contact Author)
Yale University - School of Medicine ( email )
New Haven, CT 06520-8034
United States
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