Priority Setting Toolkit Guide to the Use of

This work provides a guide to how economics can be used to manage scarcity of resources in health services. It outlines the principles of economics in a non-technical manner, before going on to address the issues of how to apply the principles in day to day health services management.

Craig Mitton is the author of Priority Setting Toolkit: Guide to the Use of Economics in Healthcare Decision Making, published by Wiley.

Cameron Richard Donaldson is a health economist. He holds the Yunus Chair in Social Business & Health and is Pro Vice Chancellor at Glasgow Caledonian University, the University for the Common Good.

Preface	p. vii
Background	p. 1
Introduction	p. 3
Economic concepts	p. 14
Approaches to priority setting	p. 33
"Non-economic" approaches to priority setting	p. 35
"Economic" approaches to priority setting	p. 46
Programme budgeting and marginal analysis (PBMA)	p. 59
Details for implementing PBMA	p. 61
Evolution of PBMA and organisational processes	p. 71
PBMA case studies from the UK and Canada	p. 92
Challenges to explicit priority setting	p. 105
The challenges of data and time	p. 107
The challenges of disinvesting and the programme budget	p. 117
The challenges of measuring and valuing benefits: economics-based methods	p. 127
The challenge of involving the public	p. 143
The challenge of the organisation	p. 150
Conclusions	p. 167
Toolkit summary and recommendations	p. 169
Index	p. 178
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Priority Setting Toolkit Guide to the Use of Economics in Healthcare Decision Making

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