Sökning: "setting health priorities"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 19 avhandlingar innehållade orden setting health priorities.
1. Setting priorities in health care : Studies on equity and efficiency
Sammanfattning : The inevitable gap between needs and resources in health care, together with the problems associated with a market solution, necessitates priority setting. The aims of this thesis are associated with the process of priority setting in health care, and are divided into three issues:1. LÄS MER
2. Self-rated health in public health evaluation
Sammanfattning : There is still a debate concerning the evidence base for community interventions. The randomised clinical trial design (RCT) is increasingly challenged as a gold standard for their evaluation. LÄS MER
3. Healthcare Priority Setting and Rare Diseases : What Matters When Reimbursing Orphan Drugs
Sammanfattning : The rarity of a disease can give rise to challenges that differ from conventional diseases. For example, rarity hampers research and development of new drugs, and patients with severe, rare diseases have limited access to qualified treatments. When drugs are available, clinical evidence has higher uncertainty and the drugs can be very expensive. LÄS MER
4. Health care need : Meaning and measurement
Sammanfattning : Determining how the health services are to be, and allocating health care, are basic issues in health policy. Need is a frequent criterion for an ethical or rational allocation of health service resources. The primary aim of this study is to analyse and explicate the concept of health care need.Methods for measuring health care need are examined. LÄS MER
5. Asking the public : Citizens´ views on priority setting and resource allocation in democratically governed healthcare
Sammanfattning : Resource allocation in publicly funded healthcare systems is inevitably linked with priority setting between different patient groups and between different service areas, so-called meso level priorities. Behind every priority-setting decision (investments, reallocating or rationing), are values affecting both the content of the decisions and how the decisions are made. LÄS MER