A Comparatives Study in System and Ethics of Health Care - A Case of Health Care System of Taiwan, Germany, The United Kingdom and the United States

• Main Authors: Chien-Teng Huang, 黃建登
• Other Authors: Gow-ning Yuan
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2007
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/71826627510401535512

碩士 === 逢甲大學 === 保險所 === 95 === Health care is a basic right of great importance to the welfare of any nation. Modern government use health care systems to ensure the nation’s health. Health care resources should be distributed in accordance with the health needs of the nation. Specially, people in the same health condition and with the same health needs should enjoy the same health care. People in different conditions of health and those with different health needs should enjoy different health care. Ethics is a kind of standard relation and theories of ethics include utilitarianism, Egalitarianism, and Rawls, all of which explain the distribution of health needs. A health care system includes target setting, administration, financial system, payment system, and cost-sharing, all of which follow ethic policies. This research investigates and examines the health care systems of Taiwan, Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States. This research applies comparative analysis of these health care systems to ethic theories of ethics.