The right to health, as a right to healthcare, represents the most expensive social right in Europe, significantly affecting the total budget of the Member States, both in universal and insurance healthcare systems. No healthcare system provides unlimited healthcare resources to all its users. The resources available for healthcare are limited compared with demand, and all healthcare systems, regardless of their financing and organisation, employ mechanisms to prioritise finite healthcare resources. The progressive increase in healthcare costs in a context of scarce resources, worsened by the fiscal crisis of the 1990s and economic crises spreading in Europe since 2007, has highlighted the ever more urgent need to address the fundamental issues of resource allocation and priority-setting at both European and national levels. Hence, priority-setting is arguably one of the most important health policy issues of our time at global, European and national levels.

健康权作为医疗保健权，是欧洲最昂贵的社会权利，这极大地影响了会员国在全民医疗和保险医疗体系中的总预算。没有任何医疗保健系统为其所有用户提供无限的医疗保健资源。与需求相比，可用于医疗保健的资源是有限的，并且所有医疗保健系统，无论其融资方式和组织如何，均采用机制来对有限的医疗保健资源进行优先级排序。在资源短缺的情况下，医疗保健费用的逐步增加，由于1990年代的财政危机和自2007年以来在欧洲蔓延的经济危机而恶化，这凸显了迫切需要解决资源分配和确定优先重点的基本问题。欧洲和国家一级。因此，