TY - JOUR
T1 - Opportunity costs
T2 - Scarcity and complex medical machines
AU - Henschke, Adam
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015.
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - This chapter looks at the problem of resource scarcity, and the development of medical machines; in particular, the research, development and population wide implementation (RD&I) of complex medical machines. It raises a series of questions about how we make decisions regarding the distribution of scarce healthcare resources and posits that we ought to pay special attention to the distribution of resources for RD&I underpinning complex medical machines. This chapter covers some common issues in allocation of healthcare resources to then focus on the RD&I of complex medical machines as an important area requiring discussion. When the needs or demands for medical treatment significantly outstrip the available resources, decisions must be made about how to distribute these resources, recognizing that not all needs will be satisfied immediately and some may not be satisfied at all [9, p. 275].
AB - This chapter looks at the problem of resource scarcity, and the development of medical machines; in particular, the research, development and population wide implementation (RD&I) of complex medical machines. It raises a series of questions about how we make decisions regarding the distribution of scarce healthcare resources and posits that we ought to pay special attention to the distribution of resources for RD&I underpinning complex medical machines. This chapter covers some common issues in allocation of healthcare resources to then focus on the RD&I of complex medical machines as an important area requiring discussion. When the needs or demands for medical treatment significantly outstrip the available resources, decisions must be made about how to distribute these resources, recognizing that not all needs will be satisfied immediately and some may not be satisfied at all [9, p. 275].
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84921632743&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-08108-3_9
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-08108-3_9
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84921632743
SN - 2213-8986
VL - 74
SP - 131
EP - 150
JO - Intelligent Systems, Control and Automation: Science and Engineering
JF - Intelligent Systems, Control and Automation: Science and Engineering
ER -