Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/205419 
Year of Publication: 
2000
Series/Report no.: 
New Zealand Treasury Working Paper No. 00/04
Publisher: 
New Zealand Government, The Treasury, Wellington
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.
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