Balancing equity and efficiency in health priorities in Ghana: The use of multicriteria decision analysis

Value in Health

Volumn 11, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1081-1087

  Jehu Appiah, Caroline ^a   Baltussen, Rob ^b   Acquah, Charles ^a   Aikins, Moses ^c   D'Almeida, Salassi Amah ^d   Bosu, William K ^a   Koolman, Xander ^e   Lauer, Jeremy ^d   Osei, Dan ^a   Adjei, Sam ^a  

^a GHANA HEALTH SERVICE   (Ghana)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c JSA Consultants   (Ghana)

^d WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^e ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Efficiency; Equity; Priority setting; Resource allocation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD HEALTH; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; DISEASE SEVERITY; GHANA; HEALTH CARE MANAGEMENT; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH;

EID: 53749100442     PISSN: 10983015     EISSN: 15244733     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1524-4733.2008.00392.x     Document Type: Article

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