Resource Allocation and Priority Setting | Assignment

Resource Allocation and Priority
Setting

Table of Contents
Part A.........................................................................................................................................3
Part B..........................................................................................................................................4
Part C..........................................................................................................................................5
Part D.........................................................................................................................................6
References................................................................................................................................10

Part A
All the countries make efforts to achieve the Universal Health Coverage (UHC) and it
becomes challenging for the policymakers to efficiently allocate resources to meet increasing
demands of people for health services (Otim et al., 2014). In various low- and middle-income
countries, priority setting is essential and all the important decisions related to the priority
setting are done with non-transparency. However, high-income country like Australia, such
macro-level decisions related to the availability of funds for healthcare sector and how it
should be distributed all over the region, are taken by the government (Wong et al., 2018). In
Australia, it includes the involvement of both the Federal as well as State and territorial levels
of government. It is also associated with complex procedures of funding and regulation of the
healthcare sector. The programs like Medicare in Australia ensure that needful person can
have access to healthcare services even if they do not have sufficient resources to purchase
them. Australia utilizes its disease burden data to prioritize health services delivery
effectively (Glassman et al., 2012). The national efforts in support of explicit priority setting
in health involve three things, which include essential lists of medicines, health benefit plans,
and health technology assessment agencies. Through these three criteria, economic evaluation
is done. The implementation of seven core processes of priority setting if implemented under
legal as well as institutional framework can improve health outcomes for desired health
expenditure considering the management of political, commercial, and interests of donors in a
fair and effective manner. However, the health of indigenous Australians is not good as other
Australians. To improve the poor health outcomes, the priority setting process should be
improved to ensure transparency in the process of healthcare (Otim et al., 2014).
In Australia, most of the indigenous healthcare services are funded by the government and
are provided in two ways i.e. through universally available healthcare services, referred as
mainstream services and through other services that are especially targeting indigenous