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Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation BioMed Central Research Open Access A population-based model for priority setting across the care continuum and across modalities Leonie Segal* and Duncan Mortimer Address: Centre for Health Economics, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia Email: Leonie Segal* - leonie.segal@.au; Duncan Mortimer - duncan.mortimer@.au * Corresponding author Published: 28 March 2006 Received: 08 November 2005 Accepted: 28 March 2006 Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation 2006, 4:6 doi:10.1186/1478-7547-4-6 This article is available from: /content/4/1/6 © 2006 Segal and Mortimer; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background: The Health-sector Wide (HsW) priority setting model is designed to shift the focus of priority setting away from program budgets – that are typically defined by modality or disease- stage – and towards well-defined target populations with a particular disease/health problem. Methods: The key features of the HsW model are i) a disease/health problem framework, ii) a sequential approach to covering the entire health sector, iii) comprehensiveness of scope in identifying intervention options and iv) the use of objective evidence. The HsW mod