Published accounts of specific priority-setting projects in healthcare are relatively few. This article chronicles the collaborative efforts of a professional practice lead and a bioethicist to strengthen the priority-setting process for a specific home care service. The project included two features not often reported in other ...

BackgroundIn 2006, researchers and decision-makers launched a five-year project - Response to Accountable Priority Setting for Trust in Health Systems (REACT) - to improve planning and priority-setting through implementing the Accountability for Reasonableness framework in Mbarali District, ...

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Priority-setting has become one of the biggest challenges faced by health decision-makers worldwide. Fairness is a key goal of priority-setting and Accountability for Reasonableness has emerged as a guiding framework for fair priority-setting. This paper describes the processes of setting ...

Many countries are undertaking widespread structural change of their health sectors. There is mounting concern that priority-setting mechanisms used in planning the reforms are not suited to recognizing or taking account of the needs and priorities of sexual and reproductive health (SRH) services. The main aim of this research was to ...

Despite multiple efforts to strengthen health systems in low and middle income countries, intended sustainable improvements in health outcomes have not been shown. To date most priority setting initiatives in health systems have mainly focused on technical approaches involving information derived from burden of disease statistics, cost effectiveness ...

Despite multiple efforts to strengthen health systems in low and middle income countries, intended sustainable improvements in health outcomes have not been shown. To date most priority setting initiatives in health systems have mainly focused on technical approaches involving information derived from burden of disease statistics, cost effectiveness ...

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The report documents the process and compares the results of the first year of two-year pilot Comparative Risk projects in EPA's Regions 1, 3, and 10. The projects use estimates of risk to human health, the environment, and economic welfare as a common measure for comparing and setting priorities among environmental problems within and across ...