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Burden of Disease Study and Priority Setting in Korea: An Ethical Perspective
- Title
- Burden of Disease Study and Priority Setting in Korea: An Ethical Perspective
- Authors
- Park, So-Youn; Kwon, Ivo; Oh, In-Hwan
- Ewha Authors
- 권복규
- SCOPUS Author ID
- 권복규
- Issue Date
- 2016
- Journal Title
- JOURNAL OF KOREAN MEDICAL SCIENCE
- ISSN
- 1011-8934
1598-6357
- Citation
- JOURNAL OF KOREAN MEDICAL SCIENCE vol. 31, pp. S108 - S113
- Keywords
- Cost of Illness; Ethical Analysis; Korea; Health Policy; Burden of Disease
- Publisher
- KOREAN ACAD MEDICAL SCIENCES
- Indexed
- SCIE; SCOPUS; KCI
- Document Type
- Review
- Abstract
- When thinking about priority setting in access to healthcare resources, decision-making requires that cost-effectiveness is balanced against medical ethics. The burden of disease has emerged as an important approach to the assessment of health needs for political decision-making. However, the disability adjusted life years approach hides conceptual and methodological issues regarding the claims and value of disabled people. In this article, we discuss ethical issues that are raised as a consequence of the introduction of evidence-based health policy, such as economic evidence, in establishing resource allocation priorities. In terms of ethical values in health priority setting in Korea, there is no reliable rationale for the judgment used in decision-making as well as for setting separate and distinct priorities for different government bodies. An important question, therefore, is which ethical values guiding the practice of decision-making should be reconciled with the economic evidence found in Korean healthcare. The health technology assessment core model from the European network for Health Technology Assessment (EUnetHTA) project is a good example of incorporating ethical values into decision-making. We suggest that a fair distribution of scarce healthcare resources in South Korea can be achieved by considering the ethical aspects of healthcare.
- DOI
- 10.3346/jkms.2016.31.S2.S108
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- 의과대학 > 의학과 > Journal papers
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