Title |
Guidance on priority setting in health care (GPS-Health): the inclusion of equity criteria not captured by cost-effectiveness analysis
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Published in |
Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation, August 2014
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DOI | 10.1186/1478-7547-12-18 |
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Authors |
Ole F Norheim, Rob Baltussen, Mira Johri, Dan Chisholm, Erik Nord, DanW Brock, Per Carlsson, Richard Cookson, Norman Daniels, Marion Danis, Marc Fleurbaey, Kjell A Johansson, Lydia Kapiriri, Peter Littlejohns, Thomas Mbeeli, Krishna D Rao, Tessa Tan-Torres Edejer, Dan Wikler |
Abstract |
This Guidance for Priority Setting in Health Care (GPS-Health), initiated by the World Health Organization, offers a comprehensive map of equity criteria that are relevant to health care priority setting and should be considered in addition to cost-effectiveness analysis. The guidance, in the form of a checklist, is especially targeted at decision makers who set priorities at national and sub-national levels, and those who interpret findings from cost-effectiveness analysis. It is also targeted at researchers conducting cost-effectiveness analysis to improve reporting of their results in the light of these other criteria. THE GUIDANCE WAS DEVELOP THROUGH A SERIES OF EXPERT CONSULTATION MEETINGS AND INVOLVED THREE STEPS: i) methods and normative concepts were identified through a systematic review; ii) the review findings were critically assessed in the expert consultation meetings which resulted in a draft checklist of normative criteria; iii) the checklist was validated though an extensive hearing process with input from a range of relevant stakeholders. The GPS-Health incorporates criteria related to the disease an intervention targets (severity of disease, capacity to benefit, and past health loss); characteristics of social groups an intervention targets (socioeconomic status, area of living, gender; race, ethnicity, religion and sexual orientation); and non-health consequences of an intervention (financial protection, economic productivity, and care for others). |
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Canada | 1 | 14% |
United Kingdom | 1 | 14% |
United States | 1 | 14% |
Unknown | 4 | 57% |
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Members of the public | 6 | 86% |
Scientists | 1 | 14% |
Mendeley readers
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United Kingdom | 1 | <1% |
New Zealand | 1 | <1% |
Spain | 1 | <1% |
Canada | 1 | <1% |
Unknown | 262 | 98% |
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Student > Master | 48 | 18% |
Researcher | 34 | 13% |
Student > Ph. D. Student | 24 | 9% |
Student > Doctoral Student | 16 | 6% |
Student > Bachelor | 16 | 6% |
Other | 57 | 21% |
Unknown | 71 | 27% |
Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
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Medicine and Dentistry | 58 | 22% |
Social Sciences | 30 | 11% |
Economics, Econometrics and Finance | 26 | 10% |
Nursing and Health Professions | 23 | 9% |
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science | 8 | 3% |
Other | 39 | 15% |
Unknown | 82 | 31% |