University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, MS 39406, USA.
J Public Health Manag Pract. 2010 Mar-Apr;16(2):98-103. doi: 10.1097/PHH.0b013e3181c87ace.
The allocation of resources for public health programming is a complicated and daunting responsibility. Financial decision-making processes within public health agencies are especially difficult when not supported with techniques for prioritizing and ranking alternatives. This article presents a case study of a decision analysis software model that was applied to the process of identifying funding priorities for public health services in the Spokane Regional Health District. Results on the use of this decision support system provide insights into how decision science models, which have been used for decades in business and industry, can be successfully applied to public health budgeting as a means of strengthening agency financial management processes.
公共卫生规划的资源分配是一项复杂而艰巨的责任。如果没有用于确定优先顺序和对备选方案进行排序的技术，公共卫生机构的财务决策过程尤其困难。本文介绍了一个决策分析软件模型的案例研究，该模型应用于确定斯波坎地区卫生区公共卫生服务的资金优先事项的过程。关于使用此决策支持系统的结果提供了有关见解，即数十年来在企业和行业中使用的决策科学模型如何成功地应用于公共卫生预算编制，作为加强机构财务管理流程的一种手段。
