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Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học Critical Care giúp cho các bạn có thêm kiến thức về ngành y học đề tài: Why prioritize when there isn't enough money? | Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation Commentary Why prioritize when there isn t enough money Daniel Wikler BioMed Central Open Access Address Department of Population and International Health Harvard School of Public Health Boston MA 02115 USA Email DanielWikler -wikler@hsph.harvard.edu Corresponding author Published 26 February 2003 Received 24 February 2003 Accepted 26 February 2003 Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation 2003 1 5 This article is available from http www.resource-allocation.cOm content 1 1 5 2003 Wikler licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article verbatim copying and redistribution of this article are permitted in all media for any purpose provided this notice is preserved along with the article s original URL. Abstract In an informal address to the 4th International Conference on Priorities in Health Oslo 23 September 2002 Professor Jeffrey Sachs - Chairperson of the WHO Commission on Macroeconomics and Health - maintained that the real causes of the inability of the world s poorest people to receive help for the lethal diseases that burden them did not include the usual suspects corruption mismanagement and wrong priorities . Rather the root cause was argued to be an inherent lack of money indicating that the burden of disease would be lifted only if rich countries gave more money to poor ones. Without taking exception to anything that Sachs said in his address there nevertheless remain a number of justifications for efforts to improve priority setting in the face of severely shortages of resources including the following three defenses prioritization is needed if we are to know that prioritization is insufficient prioritization is most important when there is little money prioritization can itself increase resources. Introduction In an informal address to the 4th International Conference on Priorities in Health Oslo 23 September 2002 Professor Jeffrey Sachs maintained that the real causes of the inability of the world s
