“Health donors, policymakers, and practitioners continuously make life-and-death decisions about which type of patients receive what interventions, when, and at what cost. These decisions—as consequential as they are— often result from ad hoc, nontransparent processes driven more by inertia and interest groups than by science, ethics, and the public interest. The result is perverse priorities, wasted money, and needless death and illness.” (CGD brief, June 2012)
The Center for Global Development’s Priority‑Setting Institutions for Global Health Working Group launched a report on “Priority-Setting in Health: Building institutions for smarter public spending”. This report identified core features of priority-setting processes and institutions worldwide, recommending direct substantive support for creating fair and evidence-based national and global health technology assessment systems that will be applicable in any kind of health system. By looking at least 63 low- and middle-income countries that either planning to support or currently support national health technology assessment agencies, HITAP was one of the case studies cited as a successful examples of priority setting.
Health Intervention and Technology Assessment Program Foundation
Head Office : 88/22 Moo 4, 6th Building, 6th Floor, Department of Health, Ministry of Public Health, Tiwanon Road, Taladkwan Subdistrict, Muang Nonthaburi District, Nonthaburi 11000, Thailand
Tel. : +662-590-4549, +662-590-4374-5
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Website : www.hitap.net
