Craig Mitton, Cam Donaldson

Priority Setting Toolkit

Guide to the Use of Economics in Healthcare Decision Making

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This work provides a guide to how economics can be used to manage scarcity of resources in health services. It outlines the principles of economics in a non-technical manner, before going on to address the issues of how to apply the principles in day to day health services management.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. April 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 249g
• ISBN-13: 9780727917362
• ISBN-10: 0727917366
• Artikelnr.: 21508646

Autorenporträt

Craig Mitton is the author of Priority Setting Toolkit: Guide to the Use of Economics in Healthcare Decision Making, published by Wiley. Cameron Richard Donaldson is a health economist. He holds the Yunus Chair in Social Business & Health and is Pro Vice Chancellor at Glasgow Caledonian University, the University for the Common Good.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction.
The basic principles.
Alternative approaches.
Program budgeting and marginal analysis (PBMA): review of the literature.
Putting it into practice.
The challenges of data and time.
The challenge of the program budget: is it worth it?.
The challenge of disinvesting.
The challenges of measuring and valuing benefits.
The challenge of the organization.
Using evidence, public involvement and values.
Conclusion