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What is The Need For Health Care about?

In many countries health systems, among them the British NHS, face severe underfunding and rising demand. Governments respond with programmes of health system reform, nearly always arguing that their favoured proposals will satisfy ‘the need for healthcare’. They rarely explain in depth how one would identify and define this need. The Need for Healthcare analyses the empirical and logical foundations of the concept of ‘needs’. Beginning from current British health policy and a critical review of recent philosophical discussions about needs, the author suggests criteria for a satisfactory theory of needs. The study offers an analysis of the relationship between needs, drives, free will and recent debates about the mind—brain, and challenges some central assumptions of contemporary healthcare economics and health policy. It is therefore relevant for those interested in healthcare ethics, health policy and healthcare management.

Author

Rod Sheaff

Publisher

Routledge

Published

2003

Language

EN

ISBN

9780415101127

Subjects

Philosophy, Medical, Social Science