An Idiot's Guide to Prioritization in the Health Sector
Every year, Ministries of Health the world over develop annual budgets for the health sector. Every year, donors, academicians, advocacy groups, medical trade unions and professional organizations, and health service managers and providers complain...
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okr-10986-137472021-04-23T14:03:09Z An Idiot's Guide to Prioritization in the Health Sector Yazbeck, Abdo S. HEALTH SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT & REFORM HEALTH ASPECTS NUTRITION POLICY DONORS BUDGET DISCUSSIONS HEALTH EXPENDITURES METHODOLOGIES DECISION MAKING EVALUATION TECHNIQUES ADVERSE SELECTION AGE GROUPS BURDEN OF DISEASE COMMUNICABLE DISEASES COMMUNITIES COST-EFFECTIVENESS DISEASE CONTROL EMPLOYMENT ESSENTIAL SERVICES PACKAGE EXERCISES EXTERNALITIES EXTERNALITY FACE VALUE FAMILY PLANNING FINANCIAL CRISES GENDER GENDER ISSUES GOVERNMENT INTERVENTION HEALTH CONDITIONS HEALTH ECONOMICS HEALTH EXPENDITURES HEALTH INSURANCE HEALTH INSURANCE MARKETS HEALTH OUTCOMES HEALTH PROFESSIONALS HEALTH PROJECT HEALTH PROVIDERS HEALTH SECTOR HEALTH SERVICE HEALTH SERVICE MANAGERS HEALTH SERVICES HEALTH SYSTEM HOSPITALS HOUSEHOLDS INCIDENCE ANALYSIS INFORMATION SYSTEMS INTERVENTION LEPROSY MORAL HAZARD NUTRITION PATIENT PATIENTS POPULATION GROUPS PRIVATE SECTOR PUBLIC EXPENDITURES PUBLIC FINANCE PUBLIC HEALTH PUBLIC HEALTH SPENDING PUBLIC PROVISION PUBLIC SPENDING RESOURCE ALLOCATION RURAL AREAS SCHOOL HEALTH SLUMS SOCIAL SERVICES TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE TRADE UNIONS HEALTH SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT & REFORM HEALTH ASPECTS NUTRITION POLICY DONORS BUDGET DISCUSSIONS HEALTH EXPENDITURES METHODOLOGIES DECISION MAKING EVALUATION TECHNIQUES Every year, Ministries of Health the world over develop annual budgets for the health sector. Every year, donors, academicians, advocacy groups, medical trade unions and professional organizations, and health service managers and providers complain that the budgets have the wrong priorities. While all these groups are united in their unhappiness with the priorities reflected in these budgets, they disagree on what the priorities should be and on how the prioritization process should be conducted. A review of the published literature reveals a lack of consensus in the policy and academic communities on how best to prioritize health sector budgets. What is more surprising is that the literature review reveals little documentation on how countries actually do prioritize health expenditures. This paper attempts to address both gaps in information about prioritization. The first part of the paper describes hat goes into a prioritization exercise. This typically includes advocates, prioritization criteria, and methodologies for making choices. The first part also describes the analytical tools available to understand who gains and who loses from decisions taken in developing a budget for the health sector. The second part of the paper documents and actual prioritization exercise undertaken in Bangladesh between the years 1996 and 1999. As the title of this paper indicates, this is not a theoretical or academic paper. It is simply meant to empower potential practitioners by introducing them to the players involved in the process, the techniques utilized by these players, the political realities that drive the process, and some evaluation techniques. 2013-06-04T20:28:25Z 2013-06-04T20:28:25Z 2002-03 http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2002/03/6630353/idiots-guide-prioritization-health-sector 1-932126-16-3 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/13747 English en_US HNP discussion paper series; CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research :: Working Paper Publications & Research South Asia Bangladesh |
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Every year, Ministries of Health the
world over develop annual budgets for the health sector.
Every year, donors, academicians, advocacy groups, medical
trade unions and professional organizations, and health
service managers and providers complain that the budgets
have the wrong priorities. While all these groups are united
in their unhappiness with the priorities reflected in these
budgets, they disagree on what the priorities should be and
on how the prioritization process should be conducted. A
review of the published literature reveals a lack of
consensus in the policy and academic communities on how best
to prioritize health sector budgets. What is more surprising
is that the literature review reveals little documentation
on how countries actually do prioritize health expenditures.
This paper attempts to address both gaps in information
about prioritization. The first part of the paper describes
hat goes into a prioritization exercise. This typically
includes advocates, prioritization criteria, and
methodologies for making choices. The first part also
describes the analytical tools available to understand who
gains and who loses from decisions taken in developing a
budget for the health sector. The second part of the paper
documents and actual prioritization exercise undertaken in
Bangladesh between the years 1996 and 1999. As the title of
this paper indicates, this is not a theoretical or academic
paper. It is simply meant to empower potential practitioners
by introducing them to the players involved in the process,
the techniques utilized by these players, the political
realities that drive the process, and some evaluation techniques. |
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Publications & Research :: Working Paper |
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Yazbeck, Abdo S. |
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Yazbeck, Abdo S. |
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Yazbeck, Abdo S. |
| title |
An Idiot's Guide to Prioritization in the Health Sector |
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An Idiot's Guide to Prioritization in the Health Sector |
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An Idiot's Guide to Prioritization in the Health Sector |
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An Idiot's Guide to Prioritization in the Health Sector |
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An Idiot's Guide to Prioritization in the Health Sector |
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idiot's guide to prioritization in the health sector |
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World Bank, Washington, DC |
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2013 |
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http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2002/03/6630353/idiots-guide-prioritization-health-sector http://hdl.handle.net/10986/13747 |
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