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Procedural justice in public health care resource allocation

Dolan, Paul, Tsuchiya, Aki, Miguel, Luis, Edlin, Richard and Wailoo, Allan (2005) Procedural justice in public health care resource allocation. Applied Health Economics and Health Policy, 4 (2). pp. 119-127. ISSN 1175-5652

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Abstract

Introduction: The legal studies literature on procedural justice identifies six key characteristics of procedural justice: accuracy, consistency, impartiality, reversibility, transparency and voice. However, the relative importance of these in the context of public healthcare resource allocation is unclear, as is whether they are valuable instrumentally (because it contributes to better outcomes) or inherently (for its own sake). Methods: A survey of 80-odd members of the UK public determined the following: the ranking of all the six characteristics; the pairwise comparisons of the characteristics; and whether each characteristic was important for instrumental reasons, for intrinsic reasons or for both. Results: Respondents ranked the procedures in the order of accuracy, consistency, impartiality, reversibility and transparency. Procedural justice was valued for both instrumental and inherent reasons. Discussion/conclusion: A robust ranking of five of the six procedural characteristics was found. The ranking for voice was sensitive to the question format, which has methodological implications. Around a quarter to a third of respondents regarded a procedural characteristic to have entirely intrinsic value.

Item Type: Article
Official URL: http://adisonline.com/healtheconomics/pages/defaul...
Additional Information: © 2005 Publishing Technology
Divisions: Social Policy
Subjects: R Medicine > R Medicine (General)
Date Deposited: 09 Mar 2011 12:32
Last Modified: 04 Jan 2024 05:42
URI: http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/33057

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