Allocating Resources in Humanitarian Medicine  

Oleh:

Hurst, Samia A. ; Mezger, Nathalie ; Mauron, Alex

Jenis: Article from Books - E-Book
Dalam koleksi: Global Health and Global Health Ethics, page 173-183.
Topik: Humanitarian Medicine; Humanitarian Distribution
Fulltext: Allocating Resources in Humanitarian Medicine.pdf (220.02KB)

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This chapter invites further examination of several challenges specific to resource allocation in humanitarian medicine, and proposes one strategy to improve distributive fairness in this context. As experience regarding actual allocation decisions in humanitarian medicine is not widespread, the next section briefly outlines examples. Following that we describe some of the difficulties in allocating resources fairly and legitimately which are either increased in humanitarian medicine or specific to its international context. All of these issues would benefit both from theoretical exploration on specific application to humanitarian medicine, and from empirical research on the impact of different strategies. We then propose that some headway could be made by adapting existing frameworks of procedural fairness for practical use in humanitarian organizations. The penultimate section presents Daniels & Sabin’s “Accountability for reasonableness,” an infl uential approach to resource allocation, and the limits to its application to humanitarian medicine. Finally we propose adaptations which could address some of these limits.

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