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Question

The goal of this exercise is to apply ethical principles to a real current health issue. Ethicial issues usually arise when there are not enough resources (e.g., medicine) for everyone one who needs it. These scarcity is very relevant to Read Ethical Issues in Making Investment Choice in Health and the Normay Case Study. Understand the following principles for allocating scarce resrouces: -health maximization (Give health people priority. They are bound to live longer and hence, society gets a better return on their invesrment. -equity (Everyone should have equal access to scarce resources regardless of demographic, socio-economic standing and so on). -prior to the worse to the worse off - priority is given to who is already disadvantaged, who are in gretest need (on condition that they can be reached) rather than who benefits the most., One must be clear as to who qualifies as worse off. - personal responsibility - lower priority should be given to those whose health problems may relate to their own behaviors. For example, when a hospital is almost at full capacity and has few remaining beds, should the willfully unvaccinated be given priority?