WHO-CHOICE

WHO-CHOICE (CHOosing Interventions that are Cost-Effective) is an initiative started by the World Health Organization in 1998 to help countries choose their healthcare priorities.[1][2][3] It is an example of priority-setting in global health. It was one of the earliest projects to perform sectoral cost-effectiveness analyses (i.e., cost-effectiveness analyses that compare a wide range of types of spending within a sector and prioritize holistically) on a global scale.[4][5][6] Findings from WHO-CHOICE have shaped the World Health Report of 2002,[7] been published in the British Medical Journal in 2012,[1] and been cited by charity evaluators and academics alongside DCP2 and the Copenhagen Consensus.[8][9][10]

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  4. ^ Murray, Christopher J. L.; Evans, David B.; Acharya, Arnab; Baltussen, Rob (2000). "Development of WHO Guidelines on Generalized Cost-Effectiveness Analysis" (PDF). Health Economics. 9 (3): 235–251. doi:10.1002/(SICI)1099-1050(200004)9:3<235::AID-HEC502>3.0.CO;2-O. PMID 10790702.
  5. ^ Hutubessy, Raymond; Chisholm, Dan; Edejer, Tessa Tan-Torres (2003). "Generalized cost-effectiveness analysis for national-level priority-setting in the health sector". Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation. 1 (1): 8. doi:10.1186/1478-7547-1-8. PMC 320499. PMID 14687420.
  6. ^ Edejer, Tessa Tan-Torres; Baltussen, Rob; Adam, T.; Hutubessy, Raymond; Acharya, Arnab; Evans, David B.; Murray, Christopher J.L. "WHO Guide to Cost-Effectiveness Analysis" (PDF).
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