Abstract
Programme budgeting and marginal analysis (PBMA) is becoming an increasingly Popular tool in setting health service priorities. This paper presents a novel multi-attribute utility (MAU) approach to setting health service priorities using PBMA. This approach includes identifying the attributes of the MAU function; describing and scaling attributes; quantifying trade-offs between attributes; and combining single conditional utility functions into the MAU function. We illustrate the MAU approach using a PBMA case study in mental health services from the Community Health Sector in metropolitan South Australia. (c) 2006 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 897 - 910 |
Number of pages | 14 |
Journal | Social Science & Medicine |
Volume | 64 |
Issue number | 4 |
Publication status | Published - 2007 |