CHDS’s Ole Norheim served as one of the editors to the fourth edition of the Disease Control Priorities (DCP-4) Country-Led Priorities Setting for Health volume, released last month. This is the first of four volumes building on Disease Control Priorities 1 to 3 to help translate evidence from economic research into improved approaches to setting priorities for universal health coverage. DCP-4 is published by the World Bank.
This first volume examines both how selected low- and middle-income countries have used available evidence to set priorities and the processes they used to design and implement essential health services. It looks at what services individual countries cover given limited resources, how the countries finance services and who is eligible to receive services. It extracts lessons learned from the different countries’ experiences and highlights twelve main conclusions.
Future volumes will examine Pandemic Preparedness, Prevention, and Response; Interventions Outside the Health Care System; and Universal Health Coverage. Collectively, the four volumes will help translate economic evidence into improved priority setting in health and cooperation between social sectors and international entities, through collaboration and capacity strengthening. Norheim is lead editor for the entire DCP-4 project and the secretariat is based at the Bergen Centre for Ethics and Priority Setting in Health (BCEPS) in Norway.
Learn more: Visit the DCP-4 website
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