L’impatto dei mutamenti demografici sulla sostenibilità dei pronto soccorsi: un’applicazione al caso ligure

Journal title ECONOMIA E DIRITTO DEL TERZIARIO
Author/s Enrico Di Bella, Paolo Cremonesi, Lucia Leporatti, Marcello Montelfiori
Publishing Year 2016 Issue 2015/3
Language Italian Pages 21 P. 439-459 File size 464 KB
DOI 10.3280/ED2015-003004
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Health ethics plays a crucial role in the activities performed by health care systems. Both the scientific and the professional literatures have usually stuck to a reductionist interpretation of health ethics, which paved the way for a focus on clinical ethics. On the other hand, organizational ethics has been widely neglected among scholars and practitioners. However, the recent institutional changes aimed at applying the New Public Management principles to health care, which have characterized most of health care systems in Western Countries, incite to pay an increasing attention to the organizational determinants of health ethics. From this point of view, the manuscript is intended to systematize the scientific contributions of the international scholarship in the field of organizational ethics of health care organizations, discussing the main issues which concern this topic. For this purpose, a systematic literature review has been performed, involving a total number of 206 articles collected through the citation databases "Scopus-Elsevier", "Web of Science" and "Pubmed". Organizational ethics is understood as crucial to the enhancement of social and institutional sustainability of health care organizations. Nonetheless, organizational ethics is still overlooked dealing with both the policy making and the decision making activities of health care organizations.

Keywords: Organizational ethics, health care organizations, clinical ethics, organizational behavior, health care system.

Jel codes: D23, H75, I18

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Enrico Di Bella, Paolo Cremonesi, Lucia Leporatti, Marcello Montelfiori, L’impatto dei mutamenti demografici sulla sostenibilità dei pronto soccorsi: un’applicazione al caso ligure in "ECONOMIA E DIRITTO DEL TERZIARIO " 3/2015, pp 439-459, DOI: 10.3280/ED2015-003004