Blar i Faculty of Medicine på emneord "Priority setting"
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The accountability for reasonableness approach to guide priority setting in health systems within limited resources - findings from action research at district level in Kenya, Tanzania, and Zambia
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2014-08-20)Background: Priority-setting decisions are based on an important, but not sufficient set of values and thus lead to disagreement on priorities. Accountability for Reasonableness (AFR) is an ethics-based approach to a ... -
Allocating external financing for health: a discrete choice experiment of stakeholder preferences
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2018-02-05)Most donors of external financing for health use allocation policies to determine which countries are eligible to receive financial support and how much support each should receive. Currently, most of these policies place ... -
Can clinical ethics committees be legitimate actors in bedside rationing?
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-12-19)Background Rationing and allocation decisions at the clinical level – bedside rationing – entail complex dilemmas that clinicians and managers often find difficult to handle. There is a lack of mechanisms and aids for ... -
Clinical decision making in cancer care: a review of current and future roles of patient age
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2018-05-09)Background: Patient age is among the most controversial patient characteristics in clinical decision making. In personalized cancer medicine it is important to understand how individual characteristics do affect practice ... -
End-of-life priorities in complex settings - An ethical analysis of decisions in Indian neonatal units
(Doctoral thesis, 2010-06-07)Background: In India, 1.2 million of the 26 million infants born annually die during the neonatal period. The National Neonatal Forum in India estimated that the need for intensive care beds in India is 72,000, but only ... -
Ethical priority setting for universal health coverage: challenges in deciding upon fair distribution of health services
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2016-05-11)Priority setting is inevitable on the path towards universal health coverage. All countries experience a gap between their population’s health needs and what is economically feasible for governments to provide. Can priority ... -
Guidance on priority setting in health care (GPS-Health): the inclusion of equity criteria not captured by cost-effectiveness analysis
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2014-08-29)This Guidance for Priority Setting in Health Care (GPS-Health), initiated by the World Health Organization, offers a comprehensive map of equity criteria that are relevant to health care priority setting and should be ... -
Health gains and financial protection provided by the Ethiopian Mental Health Strategy: an extended cost-effectiveness analysis
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2017-04)Background: Mental and neurological (MN) health care has long been neglected in low-income settings. This paper estimates health and non-health impacts of fully publicly financed care for selected key interventions in the ... -
Health inequalities in Ethiopia: modeling inequalities in length of life within and between population groups
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2013-07-11)Background and objectives: Most studies on health inequalities use average measures, but describing the distribution of health can also provide valuable knowledge. In this paper, we estimate and compare within-group and ... -
Impact of scaling up modern contraceptive coverage in Ethiopia: Sub-national cost effectiveness analysis
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Increased fairness in priority setting processes within the health sector: the case of Kapiri-Mposhi District, Zambia
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2014-02-18)Background: The challenge of priority setting (PS) in health care within contexts of severe resource limitations has continued to receive attention. Accountability for Reasonableness (AFR) has emerged as a useful framework ... -
Lifetime QALY prioritarianism in priority setting: quantification of the inherent trade-off
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2014-01-14)Background: Multiple principles are relevant in priority setting, two of which are often considered particularly important. According to the greater benefit principle, resources should be directed toward the intervention ... -
Roles and responsibilities of clinical ethics committees in priority setting
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2017-12-01)Background: Fair prioritization of healthcare resources has been on the agenda for decades, but resource allocation dilemmas in clinical practice remain challenging. Can clinical ethics committees (CECs) be of help? The ... -
Severity as a priority setting criterion: Setting a challenging research agenda
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-05-22)Priority setting in health care is ubiquitous and health authorities are increasingly recognising the need for priority setting guidelines to ensure efficient, fair, and equitable resource allocation. While cost-effectiveness ... -
Stakeholders' participation in planning and priority setting in the context of a decentralised health care system: the case of prevention of mother to child transmission of HIV programme in Tanzania
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2013-07-12)Background: In Tanzania, decentralisation processes and reforms in the health sector aimed at improving planning and accountability in the sector. As a result, districts were given authority to undertake local planning and ... -
A systems perspective on the importance of global health strategy developments for accomplishing today's Sustainable Development Goals
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-07-30)Priority setting within health systems has not led to accountable, fair and sustainable solutions to improving population health. Providers, users and other stakeholders each have their own health and service priorities ...