ISPOR 2008 International Fellowship Report: Is it Time to Think Seriously About Making HTA Available in Settings Where There is the Most Need? (2010)

ISPOR 2008 International Fellowship Report:

Is it Time to Think Seriously About Making HTA Available in Settings Where There is the Most Need?

Yot Teerawattananon 

Health Intervention and Technology Assessment Program, Department of Health, Ministry of Public Health, Nonthaburi, Thailand

Introduction

No one would argue that priority setting is most critical in settings where resources are most constrained and that the well-planned and efficient use of scarce resources will yield the most benefits to those societies. Unfortunately, health technology assessment (HTA), regarded as one of the major disciplines for health priority setting, is largely developed in only resource-rich countries [1]. At present, the majority of countries in Western Europe and North America have their own systems for HTA and formally use this evidence for making health policy decisions. In contrast, there are only a few countries in Asia and Latin America that are in infant phase for incorporating HTA into the health policy development process, while the majority of the countries in these two continents and most countries in Africa still severely lack HTA capacity

Link:  http://www.ispor.org/awards/InternationalTravelScholarship/YotTeerawattananon-Intl-fellowship-report.pdf