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Health Policy Dilemmas Related to High Technology Infertility Services
Author(s) -
Gennaro Susan,
Klein Audrey,
Miranda Linda
Publication year - 1992
Publication title -
image: the journal of nursing scholarship
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.009
H-Index - 80
eISSN - 1547-5069
pISSN - 0743-5150
DOI - 10.1111/j.1547-5069.1992.tb00717.x
Subject(s) - infertility , business , health care , health services , ethical issues , risk analysis (engineering) , medicine , nursing , environmental health , economic growth , economics , engineering ethics , pregnancy , engineering , population , genetics , biology
As cost containment in health care becomes an important concern, the costs and benefits of specific health care services will be more closely examined. The costs and benefits of one type of health care, high technology infertility services, are explored in this paper. These services may be particularly susceptible to cost containment since they are costly, raise ethical issues, and because they currently are provided to healthy individuals not experiencing life‐threatening illnesses who can afford them.