International Journal for Equity in Health Open Access Priority Setting in Health Care: Lessons from the Experiences of Eight Countries the Challenge
International Journal for Equity in Health Open Access Priority Setting in Health Care: Lessons from the Experiences of Eight Countries the Challenge
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国际卫生公平杂志 卫生保健开放获取优先事项设置:挑战八个国家的经验教训
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R. Lie
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Lindsay M Sabik;R. Lie
All health care systems face problems of justice and efficiency related to setting priorities for allocating a limited pool of resources to a population. Because many of the central issues are the same in all systems, the United States and other countries can learn from the successes and failures of countries that have explicitly addressed the question of health care priorities. and the state of Oregon in the US. The approaches used can be divided into those centered on outlining principles versus those that define practices. In order to establish the main lessons from their experiences we consider (1) the process each country used, (2) criteria to judge the success of these efforts, (3) which approaches seem to have met these criteria, and (4) using their successes and failures as a guide, how to proceed in setting priorities. We demonstrate that there is little evidence that establishment of a values framework for priority setting has had any effect on health policy, nor is there evidence that priority setting exercises have led to the envisaged ideal of an open and participatory public involvement in decision making. One main challenge for health care systems is that resources are limited, making it impossible to provide everyone with every effective intervention they might need or want. Scarcity raises questions of justice and efficiency: how should limited health care resources be allo-cated? What health services should be publicly funded? How should indications for particular interventions be defined? [1-6]. Priority setting or rationing in health care continues to be a politically charged topic, but recently its necessity has gained wider recognition [7-11]. Explicitly addressing priority setting is necessary to develop fairer methods of allocation for scarce health care resources [7,10,12] and to begin a public dialogue to ensure legitimacy in the process [3,5]. and the United Kingdom, and one state in the US, Ore-gon, that have made explicit efforts to address health priorities. While their systems differ, many core allocation issues are the same [13-21]. The countries vary in how health care is financed (Table 1). Some, such as the UK and the Scandinavian countries, have tax based national which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Garber, AM;Phelps, CE
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Phelps, CE
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10.1377/hlthaff.w4.284
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2004
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Health affairs (Project Hope)
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Garber,AlanM
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Garber,AlanM