Integrating social justice concerns into economic evaluation for healthcare and public health: A systematic review.

ABSTRACT: Social justice is the moral imperative to avoid and remediate unfair distributions of societal disadvantage. In priority setting in healthcare and public health, social justice reaches beyond fairness in the distribution of health outcomes and economic impacts to encompass fairness in the distribution of policy impacts upon other dimensions of well-being. There is an emerging awareness of the need for economic evaluation to integrate all such concerns. We performed a systematic review (1) to describe methodological solutions suitable for integrating social justice concerns into economic evaluation, and (2) to describe the challenges that those solutions face. To be included, publications must have captured fairness considerations that (a) involve cross-dimensional subjective personal life

SUBMITTER: Dukhanin V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6545595 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature