Clinical ethics dilemmas in a low-income setting - a national survey among physicians in Ethiopia
Background Ethical dilemmas are part of medicine, but the type of challenges, the frequency of their occurrence and the nuances in the difficulties have not been systematically studied in low-income settings.
Ingrid Miljeteig +3 more
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Managing healthcare budgets in times of austerity: the role of program budgeting and marginal analysis [PDF]
Given limited resources, priority setting or choice making will remain a reality at all levels of publicly funded healthcare across countries for many years to come.
A Bate +33 more
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Beyond the Black Box Approach to Ethics! Comment on “Expanded HTA: Enhancing Fairness and Legitimacy” [PDF]
In the editorial published in this journal, Daniels and colleagues argue that his and Sabin’s accountability for reasonableness (A4R) framework should be used to handle ethical issues in the health technology assessment (HTA)-process, especially ...
Lars Sandman, Erik Gustavsson
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Priority to end of life treatments? Views of the public in the Netherlands [PDF]
Objectives:Recent debates in the Netherlands on health care priority setting have focused on the relative value of gains generated by life-extending medicines for people with a terminal illness, mostly new cancer drugs.
Baker, Rachel +3 more
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Setting priorities in prevention [PDF]
In the last few years prevention has again become the focus of attention because of various international developments such as the WHO strategy for Health for All by the year 2000. When resources are scarce, it is all the more important to set priorities. This applies to prevention as well as to curative care.
Schaapveld, K. +2 more
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Stakeholders' Participation in Planning and Priority Setting in the Context of a Decentralised Health Care system: the case of prevention of mother to child Transmission of HIV Programme in Tanzania. [PDF]
In Tanzania, decentralisation processes and reforms in the health sector aimed at improving planning and accountability in the sector. As a result, districts were given authority to undertake local planning and set priorities as well as allocate ...
A Blystad +40 more
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Optimising the use of limited health resources in low-income and middle-income countries towards the maximisation of health outcomes requires efficient distribution of resources across health services and geographical areas.
Gerald Manthalu +2 more
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Background Research priority setting aims to identify research gaps within particular health fields. Given the global burden of mental illness and underfunding of mental health research compared to other health topics, knowledge of methodological ...
Kris Deering +5 more
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Background: Out-of-pocket payment (OOP) for healthcare services remained the main means of the financing health system in developing countries for a decade.
Deraro Bedado +2 more
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Involving citizens in priority setting for public health research: Implementation in infection research [PDF]
Background Public sources fund the majority of UK infection research, but citizens currently have no formal role in resource allocation. To explore the feasibility and willingness of citizens to engage in strategic decision making, we developed and ...
Ahmad +19 more
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