Health technology assessment

Abstract The aim of this chapter is to help the public health practitioner to: learn what health technology assessment (HTA) is in healthcare and in public health domains; understand that HTA is a powerful tool for the governance of the healthcare systems at all their levels: macro (national and regional), meso (hospitals and healthcare services organizations), and micro (healthcare professionals); understand that HTA is a multidisciplinary, multidimensional and multistakeholder process; gain knowledge about how to develop an HTA report to support decision makers in taking the best possible decisions; know the main sources of data to base the assessment contents on evidence; recognize the role of HTA in public health

# Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life # Economics, Econometrics and Finance # Delphi Technique in Research # Social Sciences # Evaluation and Performance Assessment

Chiara de Waure, Carlo Favaretti (2020). "Health technology assessment". Oxford University Press eBooks. https://doi.org/10.1093/med/9780198800125.003.0043