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- Criteria for priority-setting in health care in Uganda. Kapiriri, Lydia; Norheim, Ole Frithjof // Bulletin of the World Health Organization;Mar2004, Vol. 82 Issue 3, p172
Explores stakeholders' acceptance of criteria for setting priorities for the health care system in Uganda. High-weight and low-weight criteria; Conclusion that there was a high degree of acceptance for commonly used disease-related and society-related criteria; Proposal that average-weight...
- VACCINE SHORTAGE BIGGER THAN FIRST REPORTED. // Materials Management in Health Care;Nov2004, Vol. 13 Issue 11, p12
Discusses the escalating problem of flu vaccine shortage in the U.S. in 2004. Causes of the shortage; Burden on providers to ration any doses they have; Recommendation of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to vaccinate only high-risk individuals.
- Comparison of direct and indirect methods of estimating health state utilities for resource allocation: review and empirical analysis. Arnold, David; Girling, Alan; Stevens, Andrew; Lilford, Richard // BMJ: British Medical Journal (Overseas & Retired Doctors Edition;8/15/2009, Vol. 339 Issue 7716, p385
Background and objective Utilities (values representing preferences) for healthcare priority setting are typically obtained indirectly by asking patients to fill in a quality of life questionnaire and then converting the results to a utility using population values. We compared such utilities...
- Where now for pharmacist led medication review? Holland, Richard; Smith, Richard; Harvey, Ian // Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health;Feb2006, Vol. 60 Issue 2, p92
Medication review has the potential to yield benefits but it is still unproved whether it is an effective use of scarce health resources even when optimally delivered.
- In this month's Bulletin. // Bulletin of the World Health Organization;Mar2004, Vol. 82 Issue 3, p160
Provides an overview of the articles presented in the March 2004 issue of the journal, "Bulletin of the World Health Organization." Infant feeding recommendations for HIV-infected mothers; Allocation of health resources in Uganda; Dual protection benefits of condom use within marriage in...
- Approaches to rationing antiretroviral treatment: ethical and equity implications. Bennett, Sara; Chanfreau, Catherine // Bulletin of the World Health Organization;Jul2005, Vol. 83 Issue 7, p541
Despite a growing global commitment to the provision of antiretroviral therapy (ART), its availability is still likely to be less than the need. This imbalance raises ethical dilemmas about who should be granted access to publicly-subsidized ART programmes. This paper reviews the eligibility and...
- On the Possibility of a Positive-Sum Game in the Distribution of Health Care Resources. Cohen, Joshua; Burg, Edwige // Journal of Medicine & Philosophy;Jun2003, Vol. 28 Issue 3, p327
Health care resource distribution is a subject of debate among health policy analysts, economists, and philosophers. In the United States, there is a widening gap between the more- and less-advantaged socioeconomic sub-populations in terms of both health care resource distribution and outcomes....
- Variation in Patient-Reported Quality Among Health Care Organizations. Solomon, Loel S.; Zaslavsky, Alan M.; Landon, Bruce E.; Cleary, Paul D. // Health Care Financing Review;Summer2002, Vol. 23 Issue 4, p85
Deals with a study which discussed the variation of health care quality measurement initiative use for health plans. Centralization of practice administration; Presence and absence of centralized medical management; Definition of the medical group practice.
- Rationing of expensive medical care in a transition country -- nihil novum? Krizova, E.; Simek, J. // Journal of Medical Ethics;Oct2002, Vol. 28 Issue 5, p308
This article focuses on rationing of expensive medical care in the Czech Republic. It distinguishes between political and clinical decision levels and reviews the debate in the Western literature on explicit and implicit rules. The contemporary situation of the Czech health care system is...
