Category | Criteria | Definition | |
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Health level | Effectiveness on individual level | Interventions that are effective in reduction of the morbidity and mortality, as measured on individual person level, may deserve priority. | |
Effectiveness on population level | Interventions that are effective in reduction of the morbidity and mortality, as measured on population level, may deserve priority. | ||
Patient reported health status | Interventions that have high impact on patient reported health status may deserve priority. | ||
Safety | Interventions that do not harm in terms of morbidity and mortality may deserve priority. | ||
Health distribution | Various criteria | All criteria proposed in the map have the same underlying rationale: all people should have as much of a fair chance to live a healthy life, and therefore interventions focusing on certain social groups may deserve priority. | |
Responsiveness | Patient perceived quality of care | Interventions that are responsive according to patient’s expectations of quality of care may deserve priority. | |
Burden of disease | Interventions that focus on a high burden of disease in society may deserve priority. | ||
Social & financial risk protection | Catastrophic health expenditure | Health care related costs can push people into poverty. Interventions that protect people against catastrophic health expenditure may deserve priority. | |
Economic productivity & care for others | People who are economically productive and/or take care of others and become ill face income loss and health related costs, which could lead to poverty. Interventions that target those people may deserve priority. | ||
Rare diseases | Interventions for rare diseases might be very costly (because of the small number patients) and could push people into poverty. Therefore, these interventions may deserve priority. | ||
Improved efficiency | Size of target population | Interventions that show economies of scale because they target a high number of people may deserve priority. | |
Feasibility | Service delivery | Service requirements | Interventions that are easy to implement because of the current service capacity may have priority. E.g. availability of: service infrastructure, delivery models, safety and quality and management. |
Health workforce | Health workforce requirements | Interventions that are easy to implement because of the current health workforce capacity may have priority. E.g. availability workforce and workforce policies, preferences of workforce for working conditions. | |
Information | Information requirements | Interventions that are easy to implement because of the current information system capacity may have priority. E.g. availability of surveillance systems. | |
Medical products, vaccines & technology | Medical products, vaccines & technology requirements | Interventions that are easy to implement because of the current medical products, vaccines & technology capacity may have priority. E.g. norms, standards and reliability procurement. | |
Financing | Unit costs | Interventions that have small unit cost per patient may have priority. | |
Budget impact | Interventions that consume a small part of the budget may have priority. | ||
Financing party | Interventions that receive sustainable financing may have priority. | ||
Leadership/governance | Congruency previous priority setting | Interventions that are in line with previous spending pattern may have priority. | |
Cultural acceptability | Interventions that are cultural acceptable, because of the norms and values, may have priority. | ||
Political acceptability | Interventions that are political acceptable may have priority. | ||
Stakeholder acceptability | Interventions that are accepted by important stakeholder groups (e.g. patients groups, taxpayers, health care providers, donor agencies, voters) may have priority. | ||
Legal barriers | Interventions that face no legal barriers may have priority. |