International Journal of Health Policy and Management (Jan 2018)

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

  • Ted Schrecker

DOI
https://doi.org/10.15171/ijhpm.2017.66
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 86 – 88

Abstract

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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 variety of contexts.

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