The Ethics of Health Care Priority Setting

Education facts

Code: 721A86

<p>Health care priority setting is about how to distribute scarce health care resources. This course presents the philosophy of health care priority setting with a special focus on ethics and epistemology. The course focuses on philosophical questions raised by priority setting, such as when all individuals cannot have all treatments from which they may benefit: how should these benefits be distributed? And, how can decision-makers know that some treatments are beneficial, and some are not?&nbsp;</p>

Entry requirements

180 ECTS credits passed including 90 ECTS credits in a main field of study. English corresponding to the level of English in Swedish upper secondary education (Engelska 6). Exemption from Swedish

Education offerings

Each offering has its own dates and conditions. Closed offerings are retained as history and do not mean that a new application is open.

• The Ethics of Health Care Priority Setting

  Linköping University

  Linköping

  Start date: 5 April 2027

  End date: 9 May 2027

  Pace of study: 100 %