Priority Setting Toolkit – A Guide to the Use of Economics in Healthcare Decision Making
Guide to the Use of Economics in Healthcare Decision Making
Samenvatting
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.
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Inhoudsopgave
<p>The basic principles.</p>
<p>Alternative approaches.</p>
<p>Program budgeting and marginal analysis (PBMA): review of the literature.</p>
<p>Putting it into practice.</p>
<p>The challenges of data and time.</p>
<p>The challenge of the program budget: is it worth it?.</p>
<p>The challenge of disinvesting.</p>
<p>The challenges of measuring and valuing benefits.</p>
<p>The challenge of the organization.</p>
<p>Using evidence, public involvement and values.</p>
<p>Conclusion</p>

