title: Priority rules as solutions to conflicting health care rights.
abstract: Recent health legislation in Norway significantly increases access to specialist care within a legally binding time frame. The paper describes the contents of the new legislation and introduces some of the challenges with proliferations of rights to health care. The paper describes some of the challenges associated with the proliferation of legal rights to health care. It explains the benefits of assessing the new law in the light of a rights framework. It then analyses the problematic aspects of establishing additional priority rules as solutions to rights conflicts. It then defends adequacy criteria for acceptable priority rules when such rules are unavoidable. It finally defends our proposed method and explores concrete applications.
authors: Department of Global Public Health and Primary Care, Research Group on Global Health Priorities, The University of Bergen, Kalfarveien 31, Postboks 7804, 5020, Bergen, Norway. Anna-Karin.Andersson@igs.uib.no.
authors: Anna-Karin
authors: AK
authors: Andersson
authors: Department of Global Public Health and Primary Care, Research Group on Global Health Priorities, The University of Bergen, Kalfarveien 31, Postboks 7804, 5020, Bergen, Norway.
authors: Frode
authors: F
authors: Lindemark
authors: Department of Global Public Health and Primary Care, Research Group on Global Health Priorities, The University of Bergen, Kalfarveien 31, Postboks 7804, 5020, Bergen, Norway.|Department of Research and Development, Haukeland University Hospital, Helse Bergen HF, Bergen, Norway.
authors: Kjell Arne
authors: KA
authors: Johansson
mesh_terms: D003220:Conflict, Psychological; D006291:Health Policy / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D006292:Health Priorities / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D006801:Humans; D008511:Medicine; D017008:Negotiating; D009664:Norway; D028701:Patient Rights / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence
keywords: Health law; Prioritization; Public health; Rights