Legitimacy and fairness in priority setting in Tanzania

Legitimacy and fairness in priority setting in Tanzania

E very health system has to make decisions about how to use limited resources to meet competing claims about diverse health needs. In all systems, national priority setting, including budgeting, generally imposes constraints on other levels of decision-making be it in states or provinces, districts or cities, or local health authorities, hospitals, or health insurance plans. Decisions at any of...

Fair Processes for Priority Setting: Putting Theory into Practice; Comment on “Expanded HTA: Enhancing Fairness and Legitimacy”

Embedding health technology assessment (HTA) in a fair process has great potential to capture societal values relevant to public reimbursement decisions on health technologies. However, the development of such processes for priority setting has largely been theoretical. In this paper, we provide further practical lead ways on how these processes can be implemented. We first present the misconce...

Strengthening fairness, transparency and accountability in health care priority setting at district level in Tanzania

Health care systems are faced with the challenge of resource scarcity and have insufficient resources to respond to all health problems and target groups simultaneously. Hence, priority setting is an inevitable aspect of every health system. However, priority setting is complex and difficult because the process is frequently influenced by political, institutional and managerial factors that are...

Correction: Expanded HTA: Enhancing Fairness and Legitimacy

fair processes for priority setting: putting theory into practice; comment on “expanded hta: enhancing fairness and legitimacy”

embedding health technology assessment (hta) in a fair process has great potential to capture societal values relevant to public reimbursement decisions on health technologies. however, the development of such processes for priority setting has largely been theoretical. in this paper, we provide further practical lead ways on how these processes can be implemented. we first present the misconce...