PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Anthony J Culyer
TI  - Economics and ethics in health care
AID  - 10.1136/jme.27.4.217
DP  - 2001 Aug 01
TA  - Journal of Medical Ethics
PG  - 217--222
VI  - 27
IP  - 4
4099  - http://jme.bmj.com/content/27/4/217.short
4100  - http://jme.bmj.com/content/27/4/217.full
SO  - J Med Ethics2001 Aug 01; 27
AB  - This editorial provides a review of the current ways in which health economics is impacting on policy and reviews some of the key ethical and value-judgmental issues that commonly arise in and as a result of the work of economists. It also briefly highlights the contributions of the authors of this special issue of the journal, all of which illustrate how economists have approached ethical issues in health service policy (both in its financing and its delivery), and some of which explore the major methodological matters that arise and go on to discuss their potential as sources of conflict or harmony with other approaches to the same questions.