Rethinking rights and rationing in healthcare resource allocation
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Modern-day health systems have suffered from a mismatch between the seemingly limitless demand for health services and the finite physical and financial resources available to supply such services almost since their inception. 1 However, the affordability of such systems has undoubtedly risen up the policy agenda recently to become a significant contemporary problem worldwide, as the impact of demographic change, costly new health technologies, shifts in the pattern and burden of disease and impacts of the global economic crisis have called into question the sustainability of health systems over the medium to long term. 2
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