Medical Injury Compensation: Beyond 'No-Fault'

There is a long tradition of global collaboration in biomedicine and public health. Examples range from medical outposts in rural communities run by foreign missionaries (Good 1991 ) to the early infectious disease programs of the Rockefeller Foundation (Fosdick 1989 ) and from medical services and training programs for indigenous populations set up by colonial authorities (Marks 1997 ) to the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) established by a collective of sovereign governments (Cueto 2007 ).Two complementary sets of factors provide context for understanding collaboration in global public health : fi rst, the factors that inform globalization generally and global health specifi cally; second, the factors that shape ethical standards for global health programs generally and global health research specifi cally. Good examples of both factors are refl ected in this chapter's case studies.

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“…Explain the reasons for your responses. (Douglas 2009 discusses "no-fault" compensation in another context.) 4.…”

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International Collaboration for Global Public Health

Meslin

Garba

2016

Public Health Ethics Analysis

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“…I assume throughout that (PPR) is itself correct. In fact, I am unsure whether this is so 7. But (PPR) certainly does have strong intuitive appeal.…”

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Should Institutions Prioritize Rectification Over Aid?

Douglas

2009

The Philosophical Quarterly

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Should an institutional scheme prioritize the rectification or compensation of harms it has wrongfully caused over provision of aid to persons it has not harmed? Some who think so rely on an analogy with the view that persons should give higher priority to rectification than to aid. Inference from the personal view to the institutional view would be warranted if either (i) the correct moral principles for institutional assessment are nearest possible equivalents of the correct personal moral principles, or (ii) the moral principles which ground the personal view also ground the institutional view. Neither claim can be justified. I briefly assess some alternative ways of defending the view that institutions should prioritize rectification over aid.

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“…The processing of patients' claims usually occurs via one of the 2 systems: tort or no-fault. A tort system is defined as a “court-based system…, in which the victim of an injury is awarded compensation, paid by the injurer, only if she can establish that the injurer in question was at fault for her injury.” 5 In contrast, a no-fault (sometimes also called no-blame) is “a system that uses an administrative system rather than the courts to compensate injuries independent of provider negligence or fault.” 6 The former is the prevailing system in the United States and some European countries, whereas the latter exists in the Nordic countries and New Zealand.…”

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Comparison of Health Care Costs Between Claimants and Nonclaimants in the No-Fault Compensation System of Finland

Järvelin

Häkkinen

Rosenqvist³

2019

J Patient Saf

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Although the precise cost differentials may be specific to Finland, the implications may apply also to other countries. (1) Excess costs of claimants should motivate efforts to reduce adverse events. (2) Analyses of claims to improve patient safety should not be restricted to compensated claims only but should equally concern uncompensated claims. A further implication regarding Finland is that additional approaches to identify and report adverse events are necessary.This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives License 4.0 (CCBY-NC-ND), where it is permissible to download and share the work provided it is properly cited. The work cannot be changed in any way or used commercially.

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Medical Injury Compensation: Beyond 'No-Fault'

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Should Institutions Prioritize Rectification Over Aid?

Comparison of Health Care Costs Between Claimants and Nonclaimants in the No-Fault Compensation System of Finland

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