Introduction Developing countries like Tanzania rely heavily on out-of-pocket (OOP) payments to finance health. Unfortunately, these OOP payments often expose patients to catastrophic health expenditures (CHE), which hinders progress toward universal ...
Castory Munishi +7 more
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Final Report-Workshop on Experiences and Options for Priority Setting in NARS, August 12-16, 1996, Nairobi, Kenya [PDF]
The motivation for this workshop came from two sources. First, under a project funded by USAID (AFR/SD/PSGE/TDT Office), Michigan State University (MSU) has been carrying out various activities to assist African national agricultural research systems ...
Anonymous, Crawford, Eric W.
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Explicit priority setting in clinical guidelines: the next frontier? [PDF]
Langhorne, P.
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A Simple Approach to Estimate Recovery Rates with APR Violation from Debt Spreads [PDF]
This paper proposes a simple approach to estimate the implied recovery rates embedded in the prices of the debt securities of a firm that differ in priority at time of default. The approach allows for a complex capital structure setting assuming that the
Dilip Madan, Haluk Unal, Levent Guntay
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No Shortcuts to Progress: An Assessment of Agricultural Research Planning and Priority Setting in Africa [PDF]
Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies, Downloads July 2008-June 2009: 7,
Boughton, Duncan +2 more
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A survey on present status of health services priority setting in Iran
Objective(s): To analyze the process of priority setting at different levels of Iran’s health system. Methods: In this qualitative study, 19 Experts of different levels of health system were interviewed.
Sogand Tourani +3 more
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Who and how should participate in health care priority setting? Evidence from a Portuguese survey [PDF]
This article provides highlights of the evolution of the health care rationing debate towards a more transparent and open approach involving public participation. Discretionary models that have dominated health sector decision-making are being questioned
Anabela Botelho +2 more
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159:oral Scaling up neurological interventions in East Africa: a health economic evaluation
Mieraf Taddesse Tolla +9 more
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The 'Rule of Rescue' in Medical Priority Setting: Ethical Plausibilities and Implausibilities [PDF]
Not infrequently, the so-called Rule of Rescue gets invoked as an allegedly self-evident constraint to the CBE-goal of maximizing health benefit with a given health budget. In this paper this constraint is critically analyzed. It will be argued that some
Bettina Schoene-Seifert
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Prioritizing Opportunities to Reduce the Risk of Foodborne Illness: A Conceptual Framework [PDF]
Determining the best use of food safety resources is a difficult task faced by public policymakers, regulatory agencies, state and local food safety and health agencies, as well as private firms. The Food Safety Research Consortium (FSRC) has developed a
Batz, Michael +2 more
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