International Journal of Health Policy and Management

International Journal of Health Policy and Management

The Future of Disease Control Priorities; Comment on “Disease Control Priorities Third Edition Is Published: A Theory of Change Is Needed for Translating Evidence to Health Policy”

Document Type : Commentary

Author
Prabhat Jha
Centre for Global Health Research, St. Michael’s Hospital and Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
10.15171/ijhpm.2018.119
Abstract
The Disease Control Priorities (DCP) project has substantially influenced national and global health priorities since 1993. DCP’s basic framework involves identification of disease burdens based on premature deaths and disability and application of the most cost-effective interventions to the largest burdens, taking into account local feasibility. The future impact of DCP will need to take into account growing national wealth and needs for endogenous capacity to design and implement evidence-based interventions, the rapid emergence of non-communicable disease (NCD), and the universal health coverage (UHC) agenda. This in turn requires three improvements to the DCP framework: greater local capacity, supported by a global effort to cost health interventions, stronger national and international technical capacity and networks, and the use of direct, versus modelled, mortality data to assign priorities and to assess progress. Properly done, DCP could be as important over the next 25 years as it has been in the past 25 years.
Keywords
Priority Setting in Health
Economic Evaluation
Global Burden of Disease
Direct Mortality Measurement
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International Journal of Health Policy and Management
Volume 8, Issue 3
March 2019
Pages 177-180

  • Received Date 16 October 2018
  • Revised Date 27 November 2018
  • Accepted Date 28 November 2018
  • First Published Date 01 March 2019
  • Published Date 01 March 2019