Paper Info
Title
Priorities and allocation of health care resources in developing countries: A case-study from the Mtwara region, Tanzania
Abstract
Models of health economics usually maximise the sum of individual health. However, as the term health reflects very different aspects of well being, quite different objectives can be derived for the allocation of health care resources. This paper analyses the optimum allocation of health care resources in the Mtwara region, Tanzania, for five different objectives: minimisation of death cases, minimisation of years of life lost, minimisation of incidence, minimisation of prevalence and minimisation of loss of quality of life. For this purpose a linear programme is developed. The different objective functions lead to completely different proposals of how to allocate health care resources. Therefore, the results of this paper call for a new discussion of health care priorities in developing countries.
Year
DOI
Venue
2003
10.1016/S0377-2217(02)00786-5
European Journal of Operational Research
Keywords
Field
DocType
Linear programming,Health services,Developing countries,Resource allocation
Health care,Public economics,Economics,Economic growth,Years of potential life lost,HRHIS,Health economics,Developing country,Resource allocation,Tanzania,Health policy,Operations management
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
150
1
0377-2217
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
11
1.34
1
Authors
1
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Steffen Flessa1171.83