Policymakers should focus healthcare more on achieving wellbeing over whole lifetimes

Dolan, Paul (2021) Policymakers should focus healthcare more on achieving wellbeing over whole lifetimes. British Politics and Policy at LSE (29 Jul 2021). Blog Entry.

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Abstract

For complex anthropological, social, professional and legal reasons, many Western countries spend appreciable portions of their healthcare budgets on end-of-life care – between 13% and 25% of US Medicare budgets (depending on definitions). Paul Dolan uses a psychological model called ‘Terror Management Theory’ to make a personal exploration of the arguments for policymakers to assign a lower proportion of budgets to such purposes and to assign more influence to whole-life wellbeing.

Item Type:	Online resource (Blog Entry)
Official URL:	https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpolicy/
Additional Information:	© 2021 The Author
Divisions:	Psychological and Behavioural Science
Subjects:	J Political Science > JN Political institutions (Europe) > JN101 Great Britain B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology
Date Deposited:	21 Sep 2021 23:25
Last Modified:	11 Dec 2024 20:51
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/111738

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