Title
Setting priorities in prevention
Author
Schaapveld, K.
van de Water, H.P.A.
Bergsma, E.W.
Nederlands Instituut voor Praeventieve Gezondheidszorg TNO
Publication year
1992
Abstract
In the last few years prevention has again become the focus of attention because of various international developments such as the WHO strategy for Health for All by the year 2000. When resources are scarce, it is all the more important to set priorities. This applies to prevention as well as to curative care. In this paper, we describe a method for comparing prevention programmes with one another, using efficiency as the final parameter. To determine efficiency it is necessary to collect facts about a number of aspects of the health problems to be prevented: size of the health problem, degree of preventability, monetary and other costs involved and the probability that the prevention programme will cause changes in the overall pattern of morbidity and/or mortality. These aspects are discussed and some examples given.
Subject
Health
Efficiency
Health policy
Cancer
Cardiovascular disease
Cost effectiveness analysis
Health care policy
Health program
Life expectancy
Mortality
Prevention
Cost-Benefit Analysis
Data Collection
Decision Making
Efficiency
Female
Health Priorities
Health Status Indicators
Human
Male
Netherlands
Preventive Health Services
Value of Life
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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1016/0168-8510(92)90160-d
TNO identifier
231868
ISSN
0168-8510
Source
Health Policy, 20 (3), 277-287
Document type
article