Priority setting in health: development and application of a multi-criteria algorithm for the population of New Zealand's Waikato region.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Priority setting in a climate of diverse needs and limited resources is one of the most significant challenges faced by health care policymakers. This paper develops and applies a comprehensive multi-criteria algorithm to help determine the relative importance of health conditions that affect a defined population.

Methods

Our algorithm is implemented in the context of the Waikato District Health Board (WDHB) in New Zealand, which serves approximately 10% of the New Zealand population. Strategic priorities of the WDHB are operationalized into five criteria along which the algorithm is structured-scale of disease, household financial impact of disease, health equity, cost-effectiveness, and multimorbidity burden. Using national-level data and published literature fr

SUBMITTER: Dayalu R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6225550 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature