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ArticleApplied geography (Sevenoaks, England)2017

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

Zan M Dodson, Victor Agadjanian, Julia Driessen

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Article in Applied geography (Sevenoaks, England), 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Zan M DodsonUniversity of Maryland, College Park, Department of Geographical Sciences, 2181 Samuel J. LeFrak Hall, College Park, MD 20742, United States.
Victor AgadjanianUniversity of Kansas, Department of Sociology, Lawrence, KS 66045, United States, (785) 864-9482.
Julia DriessenUniversity of Pittsburgh, Graduate School of Public Health, 130 De Soto Street, A614 Crabtree, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, United States, (412) 624-2475.

Funding

Childbearing Dynamics in Setting of High HIV Prevalence and Massive ART RolloutR01HD058365 · NICHD · ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY-TEMPE CAMPUS · PI AGADJANIAN, VICTOR · 2008 to 2012
$2.0M
Men's Migration and Women's HIV/AIDS Risks in MozambiqueR21HD048257 · NICHD · ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY-TEMPE CAMPUS · PI AGADJANIAN, VICTOR · 2006 to 2007
$305k
NICHD NIH HHS R01 HD058365NICHD NIH HHS R21 HD048257
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Proper allocation of limited healthcare resources is a challenging task for policymakers in developing countries. Allocation of and access to these resources typically varies based on how need is defined, thus determining how individuals access and acquire healthcare. Using the introduction of antiretroviral therapy in southern Mozambique as an example, we examine alternative definitions of need for rural populations and how they might impact the allocation of this vital health service. Our results show that how need is defined matters when allocating limited healthcare resources and the use of need-based metrics can help ensure more optimal distribution of services.

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Antiretroviral therapyHealthcare resourcesLocation-allocation analysisRural populationssub-Saharan Africa

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PMID28596630
PMCPMC5458634

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