Priority Setting Toolkit: Guide to the Use of Economics in Healthcare Decision Making

This work provides a guide to how economics can be used to manage scarcity of resources in health services. It outlines the principles of economics in a non–technical manner, before going on to address the issues of how to apply the principles in day to day health services management.

Spis treści:
Introduction.
The basic principles.
Alternative approaches.
Program budgeting and marginal analysis (PBMA): review of the literature.
Putting it into practice.
The challenges of data and time.
The challenge of the program budget: is it worth it?.
The challenge of disinvesting.
The challenges of measuring and valuing benefits.
The challenge of the organization.
Using evidence, public involvement and values.
Conclusion

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This work provides a guide to how economics can be used to manage scarcity of resources in health services. It outlines the principles of economics in a non–technical manner, before going on to address the issues of how to apply the principles in day to day health services management.