Rather, it is the sort of questions that the HsW model emphasises that distinguishes it from priority setting models that are predominantly concerned with the narrower question of allocation within a program budget.
Moreover, such data is valuable with respect to the question of allocation of overall health care resources, especially as radiology is a costly discipline, and expenditure on radiology is steadily increasing [ 8].
It is argued that this focus on allocation and re-allocation of resources across the care continuum and across modalities for each disease/health problem under consideration has the capacity to deliver allocative efficiency gains when compared to priority setting models that are predominantly concerned with the narrower question of allocation within a program budget.
Radiology practices confront questions of resource allocation every day.
We report on a recent effort in British Columbia to have researchers and decision-makers jointly establish an agenda for future research into questions of resource allocation.
A heightened awareness of the mismatch between our ever increasing wants and scarce resources has brought to the forefront questions of resource allocation and priority setting, and the need to justify decisions taken at every level of the health system.
In this article I describe interrogating scarcity as a strategy for inquiry into questions of resource allocation within a single political jurisdiction and, in particular, as an approach to the issue of global health justice in an interconnected world.
Furthermore, for societal perspectives to be valuable for policy it is necessary to understand the extent to which these views are held and how they relate to specific questions of resource allocation, wider social value orientations and other characteristics.
This reflects the significance of the question for allocation of future research resources and the implementation of future policy development and risk management options.
The question on allocation was completed by use of an accompanying slide bar marked with the numbers of patients in each disease group who would receive treatment under different allocations of funds.
