Open AccessHepatitis C and policy implementation: ethics as a dialogic process for resource allocation
Author(s) -
Hepworth Julie,
Krug Gary
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
australian and new zealand journal of public health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.946
H-Index - 76
eISSN - 1753-6405
pISSN - 1326-0200
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-842x.1997.tb01643.x
Subject(s) - dialogic , resource allocation , process (computing) , resource (disambiguation) , medicine , political science , process management , computer science , sociology , business , pedagogy , computer network , operating system
Hepatitis C, which was first identified in 1988, has become an important issue for public health as epidemiological and clinical evidence has emerged. These disciplines have highlighted the extent of infection and its medical consequences. Now, governments at both the state and federal levels are sifting through this evidence and are attempting to create structures to deal with the problem of hepatitis C. These structures have generally taken the form of expert committees and working parties organised from established medical, scientific and public health bodies..