Data requirements for optimizing the allocation of resources to the HIV/AIDS programs include: cost-effectiveness ratios; minimum and maximum funding levels for each program; current allocation to the programs; and a total budget constraint.
The maximum annual allocation to the programs offered at the kwaDukuza PHC clinic are defined in Table 6.
Feedback from referring health care providers and patients suggested that non-enrolment was largely due to competing commitments (including caring for a partner, upcoming travel, employment and pre-booked hospitalisation), poor health status or lack of choice around allocation to the programs.
Since we did not want to entirely eliminate the allocation to a program, we introduced a lower bound on the allocation to each program set at 25% of the current funding level.
The equity allocation consists of partitioning the total budget proportionally according to the maximum allocation to each program.
We define equity as an allocation proportional to the maximum allocation to each program within the planning horizon.
The difference between the equity allocation and the current allocation to each program is the main output used in the final step.
The maximum allocation to each program assumes a time horizon of one year and is the product of the maximum number of people that could be reached by a program and the unit cost of the program.
As well, we limited the allocation to each program using an upper bound set as the product of the unit cost and the maximum possible usage for each program.
This chapter reviews studies on attention allocation to subtitled television programs.
