South Africa - THE PRIORITY COST EFFECTIVE LESSONS FOR SYSTEMS STRENGTHENING
Reference ID | AHPU.ZA011.PRCLESS.2005 |
Year | 2005 |
Country | South Africa |
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Metadata | Documentation in PDF |
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Overview
Identification
AHPU.ZA011.PRCLESS.2005 |
Overview
PRICELESS SA builds on work done by the DCPP. Its broad goals are to · Ensure that priority setting for health care systems is based on good evidence
· Support the development of specific evidence-based information and tools to help determine how best to use existing /scarce resources so that health systems work more effectively and efficiently- in other words provide good value for money
· Develop local capacity to perform cost effectiveness analysis and related work
One key innovation that will take place starting with the South Africa project is that the economic evaluation will measure not just the vertical intervention alone (as per DCPP) but will begin to think through how we can gain efficiency for an intervention(s) at low cost across key service delivery platforms that are used to deliver public health and medical care interventions. One example could be the district level of care including primary care.
Tools and training curricula will be developed and field tested to determine if they provide nationally-relevant results. In order to maximize the usefulness of this information for resource allocation decisions, work will be done in close collaboration with local policy makers and analysts. The work that will take place through PRICELESS SA is designed to provide much needed information at a critical moment for SA policymakers and will contribute to these goals by performing 4-6 cost effective analyses of district health /primary care platforms and their articulation with an integrated approach for
· Chronic diseases including vascular illness (hypertension/diabetes/renal disease) and/or TB/HIV
· Maternal and Child Health
This work which will provide a context where lessons could be drawn - both for other national studies and /or work in Southern Africa / SADC region.