Resource Allocation and Prioritizing in Healthcare

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Resource Allocation and Prioritizing
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Introduction
In health care systems in the world, today are many conflicting demands in terms of handling the
patients. When it comes to a point of rationing, the resources necessary for the patients in
different levels of complications a challenges are witnessed. Therefore, there must be proper
principles which will help in the right segmentation of the scare funding and other associated
resources, (Harris et al 2018). Following this, there are seven principles of priority and decision
set which forms the very foundation of this special concept. These economic guidelines have
been adopted in the health sector to act as a roadmap to help the decision makers come up with
application measures to handle the demand, (Harris et al 2018).
In the modern age and dispensation especially in the health sector, there are so many factors
which influence the attendance of a client form both the public demand and the decision makers.
Inpatient treatment, a much-contested aspect over the years has been whether age has weight
when it comes to the priority of being attended. Can it be a key issue to determine who should
receive medical attention over who? Can it also have a measure of defining which treatment one
must have? This question in the last decades has been receiving a mixed reaction from many
researchers of the world, not really agreeing on whether the older should be given the privilege
of receiving the services first or the younger. What does the public have as far as this matter is
concerned? In following some of the principles of equity and even efficiency when allocating
resources, does it really make sense to conclude that age criterion matters or otherwise, (Lane et
al 2018)? When resources are allocated, it is a fundamental concern to be revealed in health
circles. It is, therefore, the aim of the research in this context to evaluate these concerns through
a framework of how various sources have had concerning the matter. Actually, the position age
takes when it comes to making very important decisions concerning the resource allocation and

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also the ethical directions that must form part of this decision. This paper is dissected into
various sections which deal with each aspect as a whole in the bid to bring a conclusion.
Comprehensive Framework
In this section, the author intended to compare various research studies that have been conducted
across the range of time and compare other factors in terms age, sex, health status and how they
are line with the topic of discussion. All these involve cost-effectiveness, equity and preference
principles of economy; which will help in discovering what are the issues to look into before the
resources are shared either to the old or to the young, (Payne et al 2018).
In several public opinion results that have been collected over time, in quest of understanding
what would be the rationale in preferring elderly patient s or the children to receive a share of
resources in the hospitals or not; many of the participants expressed that mixed responses. This is
mainly understood to mean that the large group of people who are majorly involved are younger
generation compared to the old folk. Also, the questions presented may have deficiencies which
bring bias at the end of the exercise, (Pinquart, Sörensen & Song 2018). Because of this
complication, the public involvement of participants often voices their heart to mean that
younger people should be given priority. This has been inconsistent all through.
In another study conducted to still evaluate the same conviction, now looking into the resources
which could be availed to the treatment of some complex conditions affecting all the age groups
found that the desire of the engaged was that the younger should be considered over the older
people in such a case, (Jecker 2018).