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Tag Archives: ethics
Who Gets Health Care Priority? Resource Allocation in a Middle Income Country
Adriane Gelpi, a doctoral candidate in Health Policy at Harvard and a fellow at the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, describes the intricate ethics and politics of health care resource allocation in Chile. This was originally posted on the … Continue reading
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Tagged ethics, health, priority setting, public health, resource allocation
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Don’t Hire Smokers?
Dueling perspective articles in this month’s New England Journal debate whether it is ethical for employers to refuse to hire smokers. Health care employers (including the University of Pennsylvania Health System, which is owned by my employer and the employer … Continue reading
Immigration and the Moral Claim to Health Benefits
Remember this moment? Barack Obama: “There are also those who claim that our reform effort will insure illegal immigrants. This, too, is false – the reforms I’m proposing would not apply to those who are here illegally.” Representative Joe Wilson: … Continue reading
An Emotional Rollercoaster: Trends in Subjective Wellbeing During the Economic Downturn
Since 2008 Gallup has polled a random sample of 1,000 Americans daily (link here) about their subjective well-being. The data provide a rich basis for examining the short-run effects of the economic recession on self-reported happiness, life evaluation, and stress. … Continue reading
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Tagged economic downturn, ethics, happiness, public opinion, subjective wellbeing
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