คำนำหนังสือ Best Buys, Wasted Buys and Contested Buys in NCD Prevention

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Foreword

Best Buys, Wasted Buy

and Contested Buys in NCD Prevention

Vicharn Panich, MD

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Foreword

The ultimate purpose of the Prince Mahidol Award Foundation under Royal Patronage, according to my interpretation, is to pursue the ideology of Prince Mahidol of Songkla in serving for the benefit of mankind. The Foundation has three activities the Prince Mahidol Award, the PMAC (Prince Mahidol Award Conference), and Prince Mahidol Award Youth Program. The theme of PMAC 2019 was ‘The Political Economy of NCDs: A Whole of Society Approach’. The idea to produce this book, Best Buys, Wasted Buy and Contested Buys in Noncommunicable Disease (NCD)  Prevention, was proposed during the PMAC 2019 preparation meeting and has been partially funded by PMAC.

PMAC is proud to have supported the development and dissemination of this book. In fact, the product is more than just a book. We hope that it will be a collective learning tool for “NCD Managers” and stakeholders together with health economists or health intervention and technology assessment specialists. The ultimate goal of the learning process is ‘good health at reasonable cost’ with emphasis on NCDs. On a wider perspective, this learning process aims to help strengthening UHC (universal health coverage) schemes.

NCDs and their root causes are very complex; addressing or preventing them is even more complex. A policy or intervention which is thought to be Best Buy can turn out to be Wasted Buy. Even when there is evidence of high cost-effectiveness in one country, when the intervention is transferred directly to another country, it can become a Wasted Buy.

This is a book of evidence management and utilization in NCDs which can also be applied to health systems development as a whole. The key proposal is the SEED Tool (Systematic Thinking for Evidence-based and Efficient Decision-making). To me, it is a framework or conceptualization tool that can handle complex situations. The decision-making process proposed is not linear, but a learning loop leading to deliberation. The book helps the target audience scrutinize evidence, mainly cost-effectiveness analysis, to be applied in local contexts with multi-sectoral involvement.  

PMAC is proud to present this high quality commissioned work. We hope it will help changing the paradigm from communicable disease-oriented health systems to a more NCD-oriented which is a much more complex paradigm.

Vicharn Panich MD

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I can’t think of a reason why there are 2 ‘buys’ and 1 ‘buy’ in the book title : Best Buys, Wasted Buy and Contested Buys in NCD Prevention.

Is this a subtle quality that I fail to appreciate?

This https://www.lifehack.org/articles/money/25-unnecessary-wastes-money-you-dont-think-about.html offers a list of ‘wasted buys’.