iProSE: A Scale for Assessing Progress on Institutional Use of Evidence to Inform Priority Setting in Health

Adrian Gheorghe, Sophie Gulliver, Abha Mehndiratta, Javier Guzman and Peter Baker
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Adrian Gheorghe: Center for Global Development
Sophie Gulliver: Center for Global Development
Abha Mehndiratta: Center for Global Development
Javier Guzman: Center for Global Development
Peter Baker: Center for Global Development

No 286, Policy Papers from Center for Global Development

Abstract: Rigorous, explicit, evidence-informed priority-setting (EIPS) in healthcare is an essential instrument for achieving value for money in Universal Health Coverage (UHC). Growing pressures on healthcare budgets, combined with the post-COVID-19 fiscal crises and a plateauing of development assistance for health, make institutionalising of EIPS a particularly critical and timely policy goal. We introduce iProSE—the iDSI Progression Scale for institutionalising EIPS in healthcare. iProSE is a self-assessment scale aiming to help countries understand how far they have progressed in institutionalising EIPS and what can be their future priorities and to help development partners better tailor their country support in this area. We propose an index resulting from the assessment of eight aspirational statements on EIPS: two statements relate to key spending decisions (“What health technologies to cover from public funds?” and “At what prices to procure health technologies from public funds?”), and six statements relate to enabling factors for institutionalising EIPS. Statements are scored on the basis of information available in official documents against the extent to which the statements fall on an implementation spectrum ranging from policy intention to full, systematic implementation. Based on the scored statements, EIPS institutionalisation can be categorised as Foundational, Breakthrough, Consolidating, or Mature. An example of application of iProSE is presented capturing India’s progress in moving from Breakthrough in 2016 to Consolidating in 2022.

Pages: 36 pages
Date: 2023-03-10
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