Combining multiple criteria for regional resource allocation in health care systems

Resource Allocation in Health Care

In many European countries where reforms of the welfare system are underway, reference is often made to the need to ‘rationalise’ the provision of health care. This term is generally used to refer to the need to organise healthcare effectively by reducing waste, containing costs, and ensuring that budgets are adhered to. Actions taken to achieve this are varied: some relate to the provision of ...

Axioms for health care resource allocation.

This paper examines principles of health care resource allocation based on axioms for individual preferences and distributive justice. We establish axioms for representing individual preferences by quality-adjusted life years (QALYs), as well as axioms for existence of a social welfare function depending only on QALYs. A symmetric Cobb-Douglas social welfare function is characterized by an axio...

Axioms for health care resource allocation

We examine welfare theoretic foundations for solutions to the health care resource allocation problem based on measures of quality adjusted life-years (QALYs). Conditions for representing the individuals’ preferences by QALY measures, as well as conditions for the existence of a social welfare function being a function of the individuals’ QALYs only are established. The QALY measures represent ...

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Multi-criteria resource allocation in modal hard real-time systems

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