Allocating Vote: Health — ‘Needs Assessment’ and an Economics-Based Approach

Nancy Devlin () and Paul Hansen

No 00/04, Treasury Working Paper Series from New Zealand Treasury

Abstract: This paper critiques 'needs assessment' as a basis for allocating public funding of health and disability services and discusses an alternative economics-based approach. In essence, the former approach ignores the effects on health outcomes of health care spending at the margin while the latter focuses explicitly on these considerations. A simple diagrammatic model is introduced that illustrates at a conceptual level the (micro) economic constraints and choices available to policy-makers. Finally, some practical steps and unresolved issues in implementing the economics approach are considered.

Pages: 20 pages
Date: 2000
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