strategy

Modelling cost and effectiveness of alternative health strategies

Implementation:
This strategy features in the framework of Agenda 21 as formulated at UNCED (Rio de Janeiro, 1992), now coordinated by the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development and implemented through national and local authorities.
Claim:
Decision-making models should be further developed and more widely used to assess the cost and the health and environmental impact of alternative technologies and strategies. Improvement in urban development and management requires better national and municipal statistics based on practical, standardized indicators. Development of methods is a priority for the measurement of intra-urban and intra-district variations in health status and environmental conditions, and for the application of this information in planning and management.
Broader:
Assessing costs
Researching public health
Clarifying alternative development systems
Narrower:
Developing indicators for assessing health programmes
Assessing cost and benefits of different development policies for human and environmental health
Facilitates:
Supporting traditional health care
Assessing financing to reduce health risks from environmental pollution and hazards
Reducing cost of drugs
Problems:
Inappropriate managed care regimes
Values:
Health
Costliness
Effectiveness
Ineffectiveness
Subjects:
Commerce → Purchasing, supplying
Health Care → Health
Cybernetics → Cybernetics
Cybernetics → Modelling
Strategy → Strategy
Innovative change → Alternatives
Type Classification:
E: Emanations of other strategies
Related UN Sustainable Development Goals:
GOAL 3: Good Health and Well-beingGOAL 12: Responsible Consumption and Production