Priority setting of health interventions: the need for multi-criteria decision analysis
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- 1 January 2006
- journal article
- Published by Springer Nature in Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation
- Vol. 4 (1) , 1-14
- https://doi.org/10.1186/1478-7547-4-14
Abstract
Priority setting of health interventions is often ad-hoc and resources are not used to an optimal extent. Underlying problem is that multiple criteria play a role and decisions are complex. Interventions may be chosen to maximize general population health, to reduce health inequalities of disadvantaged or vulnerable groups, ad/or to respond to life-threatening situations, all with respect to practical and budgetary constraints. This is the type of problem that policy makers are typically bad at solving rationally, unaided. They tend to use heuristic or intuitive approaches to simplify complexity, and in the process, important information is ignored. Next, policy makers may select interventions for only political motives.Keywords
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