Health care priority setting: principles, practice and challenges
Open Access
- 22 April 2004
- journal article
- Published by Springer Nature in Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation
- Vol. 2 (1) , 1-3
- https://doi.org/10.1186/1478-7547-2-3
Abstract
Health organizations the world over are required to set priorities and allocate resources within the constraint of limited funding. However, decision makers may not be well equipped to make explicit rationing decisions and as such often rely on historical or political resource allocation processes. One economic approach to priority setting which has gained momentum in practice over the last three decades is program budgeting and marginal analysis (PBMA).Keywords
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