Priority-Setting

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Comprehensive Primary Health Care for India: Looking at the Cost Implications of Improving Coverage for 1.4 Billion People
March 16, 2021
In India there is a distinct lack of discussion around the financial and economic implications for transforming over the existing150,000 primary care centres into the new model Health and Wellness Centres. The authors are inspired to try and fill this gap.
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Healthcare Technologies and COVID-19: Speed is Not Always a Good Thing
June 29, 2020
With a focus on tests, treatments, and a vaccine, we take a look at the emerging global clinical and economic evidence-base underpinning some of these technologies, the mechanisms (mostly global) for financing these commodities, and, finally, the decision-making processes for selecting technologies....
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A Tool to Estimate the Net Health Impact of COVID-19 Policies
May 26, 2020
We have developed a simple tool that enables users to estimate non-COVID-19 health effects for their own context, using their own data or assumptions. In this blog, we explain how the COVID-19 Net Health Impact Calculator works and demonstrate its use by providing some preliminary estimates for the ...
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More Harm Than Good? The Net Impact of COVID-19 Policies Is What Matters for Health
May 15, 2020
This is the first in a series of blogs in which we’ll focus on non-COVID-19 excess deaths caused by the response to COVID-19, part of a larger project at CGD to help policymakers minimize the indirect health impacts of the pandemic.
CGD NOTES
Balancing the COVID-19 Response with Wider Health Needs: Key Decision-Making Considerations for Low- and Middle-Income Countries
May 08, 2020
As the pandemic accelerates, governments must also protect other essential health services. Already, there have been numerous reports of disrupted access to services ranging from labor and delivery and immunization to HIV and tuberculosis care to dialysis and cancer treatment—most notably in countri...
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Priority-Setting for Better Health: The international Decision Support Initiative
April 28, 2020
iDSI is a global network of health, policy, and economic expertise that works to directly strengthen priority-setting methods, capacity and processes, and respond to demand for knowledge diffusion and translation. Learn more about iDSI and CGD's priority setting work.
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The International Decision Support Initiative
April 17, 2020
With limited budgets, how can countries provide the best health care for the most people? The International Decision Support Initiative (iDSI) is a global network of experts helping countries set their own priorities for health spending.