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Abstract
Societal or individual decisions about the equitable distribution of available resources.
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5 entry terms
- Allocation of Resources
- Allocation, Resource
- Resources Allocation
- Allocative Efficiency
- Efficiency, Allocative
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12 allowable subheadings
Indexed with the subheadings classification, economics, education, ethics, history, legislation & jurisprudence, methods, organization & administration, standards, statistics & numerical data, supply & distribution, trends.
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Indexing Annotation
for health care resource allocation, use HEALTH CARE RATIONING; use both terms only when a discussion of health care resource allocation is accompanied by a more theoretical discussion of the concept of equity in the distribution of limited resources
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2003
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References
- National Library of Medicine. Resource Allocation. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D040841. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D040841
- Resource Allocation. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_allocation
- Resource Allocation. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q287260