Primer sets with equitable efficiencies were determined based on cDNA standard curves and were used for quantitative RT-PCR analysis using the delta-delta-Ct method [ 22].
Well-known PS models have been grounded in theories focusing on social justice, equitable allocation, efficiency and burden of disease.
The question confronting health systems in India is how best to reform, revitalize and resource primary health systems to deliver different levels of service aligned to local realities, ensuring universal coverage, equitable access, efficiency and effectiveness, through an empowered cadre of health personnel.
Based on this framework, interventions that strengthen these attributes result in population health improvements through more equitable access, improved efficiency and effectiveness and heightened quality and responsiveness [ 6].
We determine efficient, equitable and mixed efficient-equitable allocations of a male circumcision (MC) intervention reducing female to male HIV transmission in South Africa (SA), as a case study of an efficiency-equity framework for resource allocation in HIV prevention.
Considerably more rigorous analyses will be needed to assess the impact on key policy parameters such as overall system efficiency and equitable access to services as a result of these changes to the health care markets.
Except in emergencies, entry is at level 1: a key feature of the model is that each lower level has a gatekeeper role to the level(s) above, which, when the model is fully in place, ensures both efficiency and equitable access.
The objectives cited as important by most respondents included: securing adequate funding; ensuring efficiency; ensuring equitable financial access; and protection from financial catastrophe.
The factors identified in this study may assist in the improvement of workflow, safety, efficiency, and equitable access to appropriate care.
Second, over 68% of the respondents indicated that the objectives of the NHFP should include securing adequate funding, ensuring efficiency, ensuring equitable financial access, protection from financial catastrophe, and ensuring provider payment mechanisms create positive incentives to service providers.
Gaining a better understanding of the adoption/implementation process for complex and evolving technologies can lead to improvements in workflow, safety, efficiency and equitable access to appropriate care [ 18].
