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Literature Review

Arthur Barnes Jr

Husson University

April 3rd

With the rising focus on budgetary constraints in healthcare, resource allocation conversations in clinical departments are becoming more regular. As agents of the patient, clinicians face challenges in ensuring that individual patients can afford pricey treatments, despite rising healthcare demands across society (Kiernan, 2016). There is a growing tension between the individual's right to obtain therapy and the rights of society, which must pay for it. Since the disagreement worsens, we should consider whether some problems stem from our failure to comprehend public preferences. We may have miscalculated social values in allocating healthcare resources.

Healthcare resources are essential to the expansion of health care. The health of people and the long-term development of medical and health services are both impacted by the rationale with which resources are allocated (Li et al., 2020). As a result, study into health resource allocation has long been a top goal. Consideration should be made to the structure of health resource allocation and whether it is acceptable and equitable before distributing resources. This allocation should be enhanced to the greatest extent possible to boost both efficiency and quality.

Research has been carried out and a framework developed concerning sustainability in healthcare systems by effectively allocating resources. The suggested framework is based on resource allocation,' which covers the entire span of decision-making from investment to disinvestment (Harris et al., 2017). The emphasis is on the positive: optimizing healthcare, increasing health outcomes, and effectively utilizing resources. Research and debate on disinvestment have increased over the past decade, but there is still a lack of knowledge to help healthcare networks or individual facilities build a systematic, integrated, and organization-wide strategy to disinvestment.

In today's world, medical and health services are capable of ensuring people's necessities and allowing them to get sick and be treated. A planning system was used to allocate health resources in our country before reform and opening. Due to its inability to address the needs of rural and urban communities, this allocation model has been deemed unsuitable for use. Health care prices have skyrocketed because of loosening government control over medical institutions and a decline in the amount of money the government spends on health care (Pu L 2021). Under this concept, resources can be increased and allocation efficiency can be improved. Though profit-seeking nature means resources flow to locations with more advanced economic growth and high financial capacity, public hospitals lack public welfare. This model has its shortcomings, although they are minor.

Since fairness necessitates government participation and market participation, government involvement in the distribution of health resources is essential to ensure that health resources are allocated efficiently (Pu L 2021). Health resources will be distributed more fairly in the future, preventing "difficult and expensive medical treatment" issues from arising. Ideally, this would lead to a more equitable distribution of health resources for everyone.

In the distribution of healthcare resources, public opinion has been shown to differ from that of healthcare experts and politicians regularly (Munthe et al., 2020). In the emotional arena of healthcare resource allocation, people frequently believe that to provide care for one person; we must refuse treatment to others. As a result, we underestimate the value that acts of kindness bring to society. In other words, we lose sight of society's concern for individuals.

References

Dr. Fiona Kiernan, 2016. Resource Allocation in Healthcare: Have We Misjudged Societal Values?. https://healthmanagement.org/c/icu/issuearticle/resource-allocation-in-healthcare-have-we-misjudged-societal-values-1

Harris, C., Green, S., & Elshaug, A. G. (2017). Sustainability in Health care by Allocating Resources Effectively (SHARE) 10: operationalizing disinvestment in a conceptual framework for resource allocation. BMC health services research, 17(1), 632. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-017-2506-7

Li, Q., Wei, J., Jiang, F. et al. Equity and efficiency of health care resource allocation in Jiangsu Province, China. Int J Equity Health 19, 211 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12939-020-01320-2

Munthe, C., Fumagalli, D., & Malmqvist, E. (2020). Sustainability principle for the ethics of healthcare resource allocation. Journal Of Medical Ethics, 47(2), 90-97. https://doi.org/10.1136/medethics-2020-106644

Pu L (2021) Fairness of the Distribution of Public Medical and Health Resources. Front. Public Health 9:768728. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2021.768728