Description
The author is discussing how to make decisions about which health care programs to fund and how to allocate resources among them. They state that health policy analysts now need to develop rational criteria to support these decisions.
This authoritative and practical text points the way towards clear choices in resource allocation and explores the implications of these choices on expenditure diverted among different health-care programmes. The power of purchasers exposes the weaknesses of conventional thinking on the costs and benefits of priorities. Health policy analysts now have to develop rational criteria to support decisions in a process which may be inherently intuitive. This authoritative and practical text points the way towards clear choices in resource allocation and the implications of these choices on expenditure diverted among different health care programmes.