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Priority setting in health care

11 Mar 2002

Cam Donaldson holds the Svare Chair in Health Economics at the University of Calgary, where he is a Canadian Institutes of Health Research Senior Investigator, Alberta Heritage Senior Scholar, Professor in the Departments of Economics and Community Health Sciences and Fellow of the Institute of Health Economics. [...] Over the last two years, the authors of this report have worked on a research project funded by the Canadian Health Services Research Foundation and 4 PRIORITY SETTING IN HEALTH CARE: FROM RESEARCH TO PRACTICE the Alberta Heritage Foundation for Medical Research to examine issues around the process of setting priorities in health regions. [...] Based on the underlying economic principle of opportunity cost (i.e., the benefit lost by not investing resources in the next best alternative option), use of marginal analysis can aid decision-makers in identifying potential changes in the mix of services provided which may lead to maximizing the health benefit of the 6 PRIORITY SETTING IN HEALTH CARE: FROM RESEARCH TO PRACTICE population for a g [...] An expert panel, representing key stakeholders including administrators, clinicians, and possibly the public, can then be struck, with the mandate to identify areas for service expansion and resource release, in order to assess, at the margin, the impact of potential shifts in resource use on the overall health of the population (Cohen 1995). [...] The first of these discussed the ‘state of the art’ of priority setting internationally, while the second and third provided the audience with a description of the basic approach of PBMA and specific lessons learned on moving forward with PBMA in a given health region.
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Authors

Mitton, Craig

ISBN
1896956505
Pages
22
Published in
Canada

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