Priority setting in primary health care: a framework for local catchments

Priority setting in primary health care: a framework for local catchments.

Managers and staff in primary health care partnerships in local catchments, particularly in regional areas, are periodically required to work collaboratively to set health priorities. Setting priorities involves making decisions about which health needs are most important and what programs will be funded to address them. There is no universally agreed set of decision-making rules for setting pr...

A Framework for Priority-setting in Health Care

Priority Setting and Rationing in Primary Health Care

3 List of Papers 5 Abbreviations 7 Background 9 Introduction 9 Priority setting and rationing – why and what it is 10 Aspects of priority setting and rationing 12 Priority setting at different levels 14 Vertical and horizontal priority setting 14 Explicit and implicit priority setting 15 Central components in priority setting 16 Facts 16 Values 17 Process 18 Synthesis 20 Priority setting in Swe...

Global Developments in Priority Setting in Health

Countries around the world are experiencing an ever-increasing need to make choices in investments in health and healthcare. This makes it incumbent upon them to have formal processes in place to optimize the legitimacy of eventual decisions. There is now growing experience among countries of the implementation of stakeholder participation, and a developing convergence of methods to support dec...

Priority Setting: Right Answer to a Far Too Narrow Question?; Comment on “Global Developments in Priority Setting in Health”

In their recent editorial, Baltussen and colleagues provide a concise summary of the prevailing discourse on priority-setting in health policy. Their perspective is entirely consistent with current practice, yet they unintentionally demonstrate the narrowness and moral precariousness of that discourse and practice. I respond with demonstrations of the importance of ‘interrogating scarcity’ in a...