Résumé
Systems of universal health coverage may aspire to provide care based on need and not ability to pay; the complexities of this aspiration (conceptual, practical, and ethical) call for normative analysis. This special issue arises in the wake of a judicial inquiry into preferential access in the Canadian province of Alberta, the Vertes Commission. I describe this inquiry and set out a taxonomy of forms of differential and preferential access. Papers in this special issue focus on the conceptual specification of health system boundaries (the concept of medical need) and on the normative questions raised by complex models of funding and delivery of care, where patients, providers, and services cross system boundaries.
Langue d'origine | English |
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Pages (de-à) | 107-113 |
Nombre de pages | 7 |
Journal | Health Care Analysis |
Volume | 25 |
Numéro de publication | 2 |
DOI | |
Statut de publication | Published - juin 1 2017 |
Note bibliographique
Publisher Copyright:© 2017, Springer Science+Business Media New York.
ASJC Scopus Subject Areas
- Issues, ethics and legal aspects
- Health(social science)
- Health Policy
PubMed: MeSH publication types
- Introductory Journal Article