Health sector priority setting at meso-level in lower and middle income countries: Lessons learned, available options and suggested steps

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 102, Issue , 2014, Pages 190-200

  Hipgrave, David B ^a,b,e   Alderman, Katarzyna Bolsewicz ^c   Anderson, Ian ^d   Soto, Eliana Jimenez ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b UNICEF   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^d CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^e NONE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Budgeting; Evidence based policy; Health systems; Lower and middle income countries (LMICs); Meso level; Planning; Priority setting; Resource allocation

Indexed keywords

BUDGETING; EVIDENCE-BASED POLICY; HEALTH SYSTEMS; LOWER- AND MIDDLE-INCOME COUNTRIES (LMICS); MESO-LEVEL; PLANNING; PRIORITY-SETTING; RESOURCE ALLOCATION;

DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; EVIDENCE-BASED PRACTICE; HEALTH CARE RATIONING; HEALTH PRIORITIES; HUMANS;

EID: 84894271930     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: 18735347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2013.11.056     Document Type: Article

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