The Ethics of Priority Setting In Global Health
Scarce health resources should satisfy two goals; allocative efficiency and fairness. Up to now there exists limited evidence as to how to incorporate efficiency with fairness. This is both a theoretical problem as well as a challenge for national and international health authorities such as WHO.
Priorities
Funding: NRC (Norwegian Research Council), Young Investigators Award 2005- 2010
Principle investigator: Ole Frithjof Norheim
Partners:
Duration: 01.08.2004 - 30.06.2011
Budget: NOK 7 mill
Project page at NRC.
Major focus area
The study builds on an ethical framework termed Accountability for Reasonableness. The framework maintains that procedural methods are needed to resolve priority problems. The current study argues that judgments about distributions should be justified through the use of a public deliberative procedure that can generate weights to be used in distributive analysis. At present empirical knowledge about distributional weigh is lacking. The projects aim is to fill this gap.
Approach
- Case studies of priority setting
- Deliberative group assessment of distributive weights through the modified nominal group technique using person- and life-year trade-off techniques
- Cost- effectiveness analysis with modified distributional weights
Outcomes
- Developing improved tools for priority setting
- Through close collaboration with the most qualified international researchers bringing University of Bergen to the forefront in this field
- Disseminate results in international peer-reviewed journals, policy briefs and public debate.
- To bring the research group at the University of Bergen to the forefront in this field through close collaboration with the most qualified international researchers
Last updated 21.3.2012