Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học Critical Care giúp cho các bạn có thêm kiến thức về ngành y học đề tài: Capacity utilization and the cost of primary care visits: Implications for the costs of scaling up health interventions. | Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation BioMed Central Open Access Capacity utilization and the cost of primary care visits Implications for the costs of scaling up health interventions Taghreed Adam 1 Steeve Ebener2 Benjamin Johns3 and David B Evans4 Address 1Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research World Health Organization Geneva Switzerland 2Knowledge Management and Sharing World Health Organization Geneva Switzerland 3Johns Hopkins University Baltimore USA and 4Health Systems Financing World Health Organization Geneva Switzerland Email Taghreed Adam - adamt@ Steeve Ebener - ebeners@ Benjamin Johns - benpj@ David B Evans - evansd@ Corresponding author Published 13 November 2008 Received 12 February 2008 jn__ IIOÍ n no 7017 z n Accepted 13 November 2008 Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation 2008 6 22 doi l478-7547-6-22 This article is available from http content 6 1 22 2008 Adam et al licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Objective A great deal of international attention has been focussed recently on how much additional funding is required to scale up health interventions to meet global targets such as the Millennium Development Goals MDGs . Most of the cost estimates that have been made in response have assumed that unit costs of delivering services will not change as coverage increases or as more and more interventions are delivered together. This is most unlikely. The main objective of this paper is to measure the impact of patient load on the cost per visit at primary health care facilities and the extent to which this would influence estimates of the costs and financial requirements to scale up .
