The Economics of Priority Setting for Health Care : A Literature Review

The Economics of Priority Setting for Health Care : A Literature Review

This report provides a review of the literature on priority setting in healthcare. It adopts an economic perspective on the problem of choosing the optimal portfolio of programs that can be afforded from a limited national healthcare budget. The tr...

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Main Authors: Hauck, Katharina, Smith, Peter C., Goddard, Maria
Format: Working Paper
Language:English
en_US
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2013
Subjects:
HEALTH CARE REFORM
HEALTH CARE
BUDGET CONSTRAINTS
HEALTH CARE FINANCE
ABATEMENT
ACCESS TO HEALTH CARE
ADVERSE EFFECTS
ALLOCATIVE EFFICIENCY
ALTERNATIVE POLICIES
BENEFIT ANALYSIS
COMPLEX TASK
CONSUMERS
COST EFFECTIVENESS
DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
DISTRIBUTION OF WEALTH
DONOR AGENCIES
ECONOMIC ANALYSIS
ECONOMIC EVALUATION
ECONOMIC POLICY
ECONOMIC THEORY
ECONOMISTS
EXPENDITURES
EXTERNALITIES
FAMILY CARE
HEALTH CARE FINANCING
HEALTH CARE RESOURCES
HEALTH CARE SYSTEMS
HEALTH ECONOMICS
HEALTH GAIN
HEALTH OUTCOMES
HEALTH POLICY
HEALTH SECTOR
HEALTH SERVICES
HEALTH STATUS
HEALTH SYSTEM
HUMAN CAPITAL
HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
HUMAN RESOURCES
INCOME
INCREMENTAL COSTS
INSURANCE
INTERVENTION
ISOLATION
LESSONS LEARNED
MALARIA
MARGINAL ANALYSIS
MEDICAL EQUIPMENT
MEDICAL TECHNOLOGIES
MORBIDITY
NUTRITION
OPPORTUNITY COSTS
OPTIMIZATION
PATIENTS
POLICY ANALYSIS
POLITICAL ECONOMY
PRESENT VALUE
PRODUCTIVITY
PROMOTING HEALTH
PUBLIC HEALTH
PUBLIC HEALTH PROGRAMS
PUBLIC SECTOR
RESOURCE ALLOCATION
SCARCE RESOURCES
SOCIAL POLICY
TRANSACTION COSTS
TUBERCULOSIS
UNCERTAINTY
WAGES
WEALTH
WELFARE ECONOMICS HEALTH CARE REFORM
Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2004/09/5584467/economics-priority-setting-health-care-literature-review
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/13700

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