Ageism and equality

Journal of Medical Ethics 38 (5):263-266 (2012)
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Abstract

This paper rebuts suggestions made by Littlejohns et al that NICE is not ageist by analysing the concept of ageism. It recognises the constraints that finite resources impose on decision making bodies such as NICE and then makes a number of positive suggestions as to how NICE might more effectively and more justly intervene in the allocation of scarce resources for health

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John Terence Harris
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