High-performing teams, compared to lower-performing teams, spend 54% more time first setting direction, crafting a vision that serves as a guiding light for decisions regarding resources.
This is important because having a standardized interpretation of the statistical characteristics of an outbreak detection test, including the specificity, aids public health practitioners in making rational decisions regarding resource allocation in the event of an alarm.
In the resource-constrained countries of Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), where policy and decision makers are frequently faced with tough decisions regarding resource allocation, cost effectiveness analysis (CEA) can be a useful tool for optimal allocation of scarce resources.
In planned economies and in the public sectors of mixed economies, the decisions regarding resource distribution are political.
Despite the paucity of data, decisions regarding resource allocation in health care have to be made.
In a context of limited health care resources, pharmacoeconomic considerations are crucial to help policy-makers in making the most appropriate decisions regarding resource allocation.
Ethnographic research is also vital for gaining insights into delicate issues, such as painful decisions regarding resource allocations among family members, which cannot be obtained through surveys.
The results of such research will be needed to evaluate the cost-effectiveness of future interventions and inform policy decisions regarding resource allocation.
Measures of health status, including quality of life, have become increasingly important considerations in decisions regarding resource allocation, intervention design, and treatment of individuals with chronic disease.
Consideration of HRQL has become increasingly important in decisions regarding resource allocation, intervention design, and pharmacological treatment with biologic agents of individuals with chronic inflammatory disabling conditions [ 14- 16].
In making sensible decisions regarding resource allocation, independent evidence-based recommendations to government to regulate the use of health technologies, as is the function of the National Institutes of Clinical Excellence (NICE) in the UK, provides an alternative model.
