The Ethics of Patient Incentives
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.26512/rbb.v10i1-4.7699Keywords:
ethics, incentives to patients, resource allocation, healthcare.Abstract
The incentives to patients related to health care ”“and the ethical issues associated with this process- have been the subject of constant discussion in our societies. How does the individual patient and how do societies want to live? And how do health care providers want them to live? Does individual responsibility for their own health, charged to patients, and proposed interventions by health providers, have limits? What are those limits? Should the monetary cost of health and incentives be part of the decision-making process related to these issues? The authors provide discussions over these topics, seeking to provide insights on how individuals and societies can ethically deal with these demands in order to get people to more effectively prevent disease, leading healthy lifestyles and considering a judicious allocation of resources.
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