We conclude with a brief discussion of the next steps necessary to generating evidence necessary to informing a health human resource strategy relating to the provision of care to older Canadians.
Nowadays such organisations are increasingly undertaking or commissioning HTAs to inform a particular resource allocation decision, i.e. appraisals such as: listing a drug on a national or local formulary, defining coverage and insurance plans, and issuing mandatory guidance on the use of health care technologies [ 2].
Our discussions in Nairobi will inform a global conference on resource mobilization to be held on April 17-19, 2011 in Washington, DC, and responds to an ongoing initiative by Group of Twenty industrialized and emerging market economies on enhancing revenue mobilization in developing countries.
These value sets are widely used in the analysis of EQ-5D data and inform a wide range of resource allocation decisions.
The findings reported are part of a larger qualitative interview study with 39 young people (29 women and 10 men) with EDs in the UK, conducted to inform an online patient information resource (http://www.healthtalkonline.org/young-peoples-experiences/eating-disorders).
Charcoal remains recovered from settlements and funerary sites in this area can inform a greater understanding of wood resource procurement and woodland management strategies adopted by these small-scale communities.
Second, guided by the simulation study, we applied the models to actual data with the intent of informing natural resource management.
Previous UK costing studies were cost of illness studies, which may have a role in informing resource allocation to disease areas, where prevention or treatment have the greatest potential for reducing future health care expenditure.
Thus they enable comparisons between different health-care interventions in terms of a single measure of relative efficiency (i.e. cost per QALY), informing resource allocation decisions based on considerations of allocative efficiency across interventions [ 36].
Hence, the illustrated framework could be used in informing cross-sectorial resource allocation decisions.
