Strategic Costs and Preferences Revelation in the Allocation of Resources for Medical Treatments

2005 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura Levaggi ◽  
Rosella Levaggi
Keyword(s):  
Allocation Of Resources ◽  
Medical Treatments

scholarly journals Medicine as Message: Caregiving, Illness Deception, and the Cultural Evolution of Harmful Treatments 2018

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mícheál de Barra
Keyword(s):  
Mathematical Model ◽  
Game Theory ◽  
Evolutionary Game Theory ◽  
Cultural Evolution ◽  
Evolutionary Game ◽  
Allocation Of Resources ◽  
Medical Treatments ◽  
Invasion Analysis ◽  
Illness Deception ◽  
Gain Access

Why did harmful medical treatments like bloodletting persist for centuries? We propose the following solution to this important cultural evolution question: Illness or injury often leaves people incapacitated for long periods. Caregiving - the provision of food, shelter etc. - is an important medical practice that enables ill or injured people and their dependents to survive these periods. However, caregiving is vulnerable to exploitation via illness deception whereby people feign illness in order to gain access to care. Harmful treatments helped to solve the problem of illness deception because only individuals who stand to gain substantially from care will accept the treatment. To investigate the plausibility of this theory we develop a mathematical model using evolutionary game theory and invasion analysis. We show that decreasing the benefit of caregiving via aversive and unpleasant medical treatments can counter-intuitively increase the range of conditions where caregiving is evolutionarily viable. Thus poisoning, cannibalism, emetics, bloodletting and other such treatments may be solutions to the problem of allocation of resources to people with unclear need.

The allocation of resources over time: Making things last under risk

1990 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harvey Langholtz ◽  
Charles Gettys ◽  
Bobbie Foote
Keyword(s):  
Allocation Of Resources ◽  
Over Time

Research on Starvation in the Warsaw Ghetto – Ethical Problems

2010 ◽  
pp. 439-450
Author(s):  
Marta Janczewska
Keyword(s):  
Research Team ◽  
Ethical Dilemmas ◽  
Medical Profession ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Special Kind ◽  
Scientific Discipline ◽  
Medical Treatments ◽  
Warsaw Ghetto ◽  
Dying Patients ◽  
To Receive

Research team of physicians and lab technicians under Izrael Milejkowski’s direction undertook the effort to carry out a series of clinical and biochemical experiments on patients dying of starvation in the Warsaw ghetto so as to receive the fullest possible picture of hunger disease. The research was carried out according to all the rigors of strict scientific discipline, and the authors during their work on academic articles, published it after the war entitled: „Starvation disease: hunger research carried out in the Warsaw ghetto in 1942,” according to their own words, they “supplemented the gap in accordance with the progress of knowledge.” The article is devoted to the reflections over ethical dilemmas of the research team, who were forced in their work to perform numerous medical treatments of experimental nature on extremely exhausted patients. The ill, according to Dr Fajgenblat’s words,“demonstrated negativism toward the research and treatment, which extremely hindered the work, and sometimes even frustrated it.” The article attempts to look at the monumental research work of the Warsaw ghetto doctors as a special kind of response of the medical profession to the feeling of helplessness to the dying patients. The article analyzes the situation of Warsaw ghetto doctors, who undertook the research without support of any outer authority, which could settle their possible ethical dilemmas (Polish deontological codes, European discussions on the conditions of the admissibility of medical research on patients, etc.).

Coronavirus: Towards controlling of the pandemic - Indian scenario

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (SPL1) ◽  
pp. 462-468
Author(s):  
Latika kothari ◽  
Sanskruti Wadatkar ◽  
Roshni Taori ◽  
Pavan Bajaj ◽  
Diksha Agrawal
Keyword(s):  
Control Measures ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Medical Treatments ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
The Public ◽  
Infection Control Measures ◽  
The Social ◽  
Asking Questions ◽  
The Government ◽  
Novel Coronavirus

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a communicable infection caused by the novel coronavirus resulting in severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV). It was recognized to be a health crisis for the general population of international concern on 30th January 2020 and conceded as a pandemic on 11th March 2020. India is taking various measures to fight this invisible enemy by adopting different strategies and policies. To stop the COVID-19 from spreading, the Home Affairs Ministry and the health ministry, of India, has issued the nCoV 19 guidelines on travel. Screening for COVID-19 by asking questions about any symptoms, recent travel history, and exposure. India has been trying to get testing kits available. The government of India has enforced various laws like the social distancing, Janata curfew, strict lockdowns, screening door to door to control the spread of novel coronavirus. In this pandemic, innovative medical treatments are being explored, and a proper vaccine is being hunted to deal with the situation. Infection control measures are necessary to prevent the virus from further spreading and to help control the current situation. Thus, this review illustrates and explains the criteria provided by the government of India to the awareness of the public to prevent the spread of COVID-19.

Intra-sectoral and Intersectoral Parity Issues in Pricing of Agricultural Crops: A Preliminary Analysis

1987 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 401-417
Author(s):  
Sarfraz K. Qureshi
Keyword(s):  
Preliminary Analysis ◽  
Agricultural Sector ◽  
Terms Of Trade ◽  
Agricultural Crops ◽  
Allocation Of Resources ◽  
Price Determination ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
The Government ◽  
Distribution Of Income ◽  
Over Time

Intersectoral terms of trade play a cruc1al role in determining the sectoral distribution of income and resource allocation in the developing countries. The significance of intra-sectoral terms of trade for the allocation of resources within the agricultural sector is also widely accepted by research scholars and policy-makers. In the context of planned development, the government specifies production targets for the agricultural sector and for different crops. The intervention of government in the field of price determination has important implications for the achievement of planned targets. In Pakistan, there is a feeling among many groups including farmers and politicians with a rural background that prices of agricultural crops have not kept their parities intact over time and that prices generally do not cover the costs of production. The feeling that production incentives for agriculture have been eroded is especially strong for the period since the early 1970s. It is argued that strong inflationary pressures supported by a policy of withdrawal of government subsidies on agricultural inputs have resulted in rapid increases in the prices paid by agriculturists and that increases in the prices received by farmers were not enough to compensate them for the rising prices of agricultural inputs and consumption goods.

A Case Report of Spine Decompression including Korean Medical treatments on Post-operative State of Cervical Spine

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 113-122
Author(s):  
Ji-Yun Lee ◽  
Won-Bin Shin ◽  
Su-Yeon Lim ◽  
Young-Joo Moon ◽  
Hyun-A Jeon ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Case Report ◽  
Cervical Spine ◽  
Medical Treatments

Ultrastructural Changes of Candida albicans Species Induced by the Presence of Sodium Diclofenac

2017 ◽  
Vol 68 (11) ◽  
pp. 2566-2569 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elena Rusu ◽  
Ionela Sarbu ◽  
Magdalena Mitache ◽  
Horatiu Moldovan ◽  
Carmen Ioana Biris ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Candida Albicans ◽  
High Frequency ◽  
Fungal Infections ◽  
Diagnostic Methods ◽  
Ultrastructural Changes ◽  
Frequency Of Occurrence ◽  
Medical Treatments ◽  
Sodium Diclofenac ◽  
Cell Wall Disruption ◽  
Candidiasis Treatment

The high frequency of occurrence of candidiasis as well as high mortality of patients with immunosuppression cause a tendency toward better understanding of Candida albicans species virulence factors and developing sensitive and specific diagnostic methods, and appropriate strategies of candidiasis treatment. In recent decades the incidence of fungal infections has alarming increases because of advanced medical treatments. In this study was analyzed possible ultrastructural changes of the species C. albicans cells following treatment with sodium diclofenac at various concentrations. Following treatment of C. albicans cells with sodium diclofenac 1 mM and 2 mM changes in the plasmalemma can be noticed, changes in the density of cell wall, disruption and necrotic appearance of the cytoplasm.

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