How to allocate limited healthcare resources: Lessons from the introduction of antiretroviral therapy in rural Mozambique

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• 作者：Zan M. Dodson^a ; ^{zan.dodson@pitt.edu} ; Victor Agadjanian^b ; ^vag@ku.edu ; Julia Driessen^c ; ^{driessen@pitt.edu}
• 关键词：Antiretroviral therapy ; Healthcare resources ; Location-allocation analysis ; Rural populations ; Sub-Saharan Africa
• 刊名：Applied Geography
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：January 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：78
• 期：Complete
• 页码：45-54
• 全文大小：1025 K
• 卷排序：78

文摘

The way ‘need’ is defined matters for allocating limited healthcare resources. The initial allocation of antiretroviral therapy is sub-optimally distributed. Proper allocation of health services is an integral part of investing in human capital.