Browsing Department of Global Public Health and Primary Care by Subject "Resource allocation"
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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 ... -
Costs and expected gain in lifetime health from intensive care versus general ward care of 30,712 individual patients: A distribution-weighted cost-effectiveness analysis
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2017-08-21)Background: Clinicians, hospital managers, policy makers, and researchers are concerned about high costs, increased demand, and variation in priorities in the intensive care unit (ICU). The objectives of this modelling ... -
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 ... -
Selling my sheep to pay for medicines – household priorities and coping strategies in a setting without universal health coverage
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2018-03-02)Background: The first month of life is the period with the highest risk of dying. Despite knowledge of effective interventions, newborn mortality is high and utilization of health care services remains low in Ethiopia. In ...