The use of mortality data in the report of the resource allocation working party (H.M.S.O. 1976)

Ferrer, H.P.; Moore, Alan; Stevens, Gabrielle

doi:10.1016/s0033-3506(77)80071-1

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“…Other critics argued that the correlation of SMRs with General Household Survey morbidity data was even worse sub-regionally (Ferrer, Moore and Stevens 1977;Snaith 1978). However, in a much larger study, Brennan and Clare (1980) found strong correlations below Area Health Authority level between mortality and two measures of sickness from the national census.…”

Section: Mortality and Morbidity Correlationsmentioning

confidence: 96%

Measuring Need in the National Health Service Resource Allocation Formula: Standardized Mortality Ratios or Social Deprivation?

Mays

1987

Public Administration

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All methods of dividing public expenditure between competing claims become contentious, particularly when they rely on social indicators of need. The Resource Allocation Working Party (RAW) formula devised in 1976 for distributing National Health Service financial resources fairly between different parts of England relies on the size, age/sex structure and mortality rates (in the form of standardized mortality ratios – SMRS) of populations as combined surrogates for their need for health care. This paper aims to demonstrate three things: first, that RAW'S approach in selecting SMRS was sure‐footed; second, that no better proxy of health care need which could be used in RAW has been produced since RAW; and third, that the continuing criticism of SMRS has been sustained by political pressures within the NHS. The result has been the application of ever more indirect and complex surrogates for‘need in the resource allocation process which are known to be contaminated by the prevailing unequal supply of health service facilities.

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Section: Mortality and Morbidity Correlationsmentioning

confidence: 96%

Measuring Need in the National Health Service Resource Allocation Formula: Standardized Mortality Ratios or Social Deprivation?

Mays

1987

Public Administration

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“…The RAWP formula has occasionally been criticized for using mortality data (Ferrer et al, 1977;Holland, 1986). Strong linear relationships between mortality and two indicators of morbidity have, however, been obtained, suggesting that it is reasonable to use mortality data in the RAWP formula (Brennan and Clare, 1980).…”

Section: Resource Allocationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Epidemiological measures in planning: Observations from Sweden

Rosén

1988

Health Planning & Management

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This article reviews how epidemiological measures can be used in health planning. Theoretical considerations are discussed together with empirical data from Sweden. Formulation of targets, priority settings, resource allocation and monitoring systems are some ways in which epidemiological data can improve health planning. One important lesson for planning is that problems related to health, inequalities in health, and access to care, must be made visible to politicians, health personnel and the public. Further, there is a need to complement a national health policy with a decentralized planning system that takes local conditions and needs into consideration.

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“…Others argued that there was even less correlation of SMRs with general household survey data subregionally. 12 1 Yet in one ofthe largest such studies Brennan and Clare found strong correlations below area health authority level between mortality and two measures of sickness from the national census. '4 So they concluded that overall mortality could justifiably be used even subregionally as a proxy for morbidity in resource allocation.…”

Section: An Epidemiological Approachmentioning

confidence: 99%