Edited by David E. Bloom and Rashmi Dayalu.
Volume 16 Supplement 1
Priority Setting in Global Health
Research
Publication of this supplement has been supported by sponsorship from Mark O’Friel, the Brinson Foundation, and the Payne Family Foundation. Information about the source of funding for publication charges can be found in the individual articles. The articles have undergone the journal's standard peer review process for supplements. DEB and RD are authors of an article submitted in this supplement. Both confirm that they were not part of the review process for their manuscript.
Boston, MA, USA5-6 October 2016
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Citation: Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation 2018 16(Suppl 1):49
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Can reflective multicriteria be the new paradigm for healthcare decision-making? The EVIDEM journey
Multiple technologies, procedures and programs call for fairly-based decisions for prioritization of healthcare interventions. There is a diversity of perspectives of what constitutes a legitimate decision, wh...
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Setting health sector priorities: a brief overview of Ethiopia’s experience
As a country with significant resource constraints, a fair and efficient health priority setting should be at the cornerstone of Ethiopia’s commitment to attain universal health coverage by 2035. This paper dr...
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MCDA from a health economics perspective: opportunities and pitfalls of extending economic evaluation to incorporate broader outcomes
Multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA) is a structured decision-making process that offers greater flexibility to incorporate multiple objectives than cost-effectiveness analysis or benefit–cost analysis.
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How can MCDA tools improve priority setting? Four critical questions
This comment argues that four critical questions needs to be resolved before MCDA tools can improve priority setting in health: how to merge the quantitative and deliberative elements of MCDA; how to select cr...
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Stakeholder involvement in Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis
This brief perspective highlights the importance of decision maker buy-in and ownership through stakeholder engagement in the co-construction of the multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA) model. A brief histo...
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Priority setting in health: development and application of a multi-criteria algorithm for the population of New Zealand’s Waikato region
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 ...
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MCDA or preference-based social welfare functions?
Preference-based social welfare functions (pbSWF) perform better at reconciling competing personal and social goals than typical forms of MCDA. Its virtues are (a) its respect for people’s own judgments about ...
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Including the public perspective in health-related MCDA: ideas from the field of public opinion research and polling
This commentary utilizes the lens of public opinion research in health to suggest ideas for best integrating public input into multi-criteria decisions analysis (MCDA) approaches. The field of public opinion r...
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Combining A4R and MCDA in priority setting for health
Multiple criteria decision analysis (MCDA) has been proposed as a method for determining the criteria to be used in health technology assessment. A standard criticism of MCDA is that it lacks attention to secu...
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Incorporating MCDA into HTA: challenges and potential solutions, with a focus on lower income settings
Multicriteria decision analysis (MCDA) has the potential to bring more structure and transparency to health technology assessment (HTA). The objective of this paper is to highlight key methodological and pract...
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Priority setting for the introduction of rotavirus vaccine: what evidence was essential?
Rotavirus (RV) diarrhea is the most common cause of severe diarrhea in children worldwide and since 2006, vaccines have been available and recommended by WHO for use in all children. We developed protocols tha...
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HTA and MCDA solely or combined? The case of priority-setting in Colombia
All healthcare systems face problems of justice and efficiency related to setting priorities for allocating limited financial resources. Therefore, explicit decision-making in healthcare depicted as a continuu...
Citation: Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation 2018 16(Suppl 1):47 -
Commentary: setting priorities in NCD prevention and control
Decision making in health requires the use of sound evidence and context-specific information, guided by a priority setting methodology or framework. For noncommunicable disease (NCD) prevention and control, a...
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Resource allocation in decision support frameworks
Cost–benefit and cost-effectiveness analysis place limits on the dimensions of value that the models can incorporate. Cost–benefit analysis requires monetization of all measures of value (including life), a ta...
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Multi-criteria decision analysis: of politics, policy entrepreneurs, and processes
Multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA) has the potential to increase the consistency, transparency and rigour with which these criteria inform decisions. Political context is relevant not only as a motivation...
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Panel discussion on the application of MCDA tools
Prioritization in healthcare is particularly sensitive to subjective biases and data asymmetry. Yet making data-based and objective decisions are critical to optimizing long term individual and societal benefi...
Citation: Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation 2018 16(Suppl 1):40
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