This book analyses the impact of courts and litigation on the way health systems set priorities and make rationing decisions. It focuses on how the judicial protection of the right to healthcare can impact the institutionalization, functioning and centrality of Health Technology Assessment (HTA) for decisions about the funding of treatment.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
1 Introduction
2 Priority-Setting and the Right to Healthcare: Synergies and Tensions on the Path to Universal Health Coverage
3 Priority-Setting and Health Technology Assessment
4 Brazil - Right to Healthcare Litigation: The Problem and the Institutional Responses
5 Colombia - Demanding But Undermining Fair Priority-Setting Via Courts
6 England - From Wednesbury Unreasonableness to Accountability for Reasonableness
7 Conclusion - Institutionalizing, Controlling, Limiting and Circumventing HTA Via Courts
