Resources available to the health care sector are finite and typically insufficient to fulfil all the demands for health care in the population. Decisions must be made about which treatments to provide. Relatively little is known about the views of the general public regarding the principles...

Health systems typically apply cost-utility frameworks in response to the moral dilemma of how best to allocate scarce health care resources. However, implementation of recommendations based on costs and benefit calculations and subsequent challenges have led to 'special cases' which enable the...