Academic Articles & Research Papers

Health Technology Assessment. Methodologies for Developing Countries

Evaluative research in area of health technology assessment (HTA) and training of researchers in medicine schools of public health and training programs in health management should be promoted. The focus when evaluating health technology in...

Good Practice Guidelines for Decision-Analytic Modelling in Health Technology Assessment

Health technology assessment and haemophilia

Although the funding of rare diseases such as haemophilia in developing countries remains a low priority, pressures on the funding of haemophilia treatment are also emerging in developed economies affected by the global economic downturn an...

Feasibility study for interactive reporting of network meta-analysis: experiences from the development of the MetaInsight COVID-19 app for stakeholder exploration, re-analysis and sensitivity analysis from living systematic reviews

Abstract Background Network meta-analysis (NMA) has been increasingly adopted worldwide by Cochrane reviews, guideline developers and decision-making bodies to identify optimal treatment choices. However, NMA results are often produced stat...

Historical Evolution in STI Policy-making in Iran: a Network Governance Approach

The governance of the STI policy covers a wide range of practices and activities related to complex interactions among different actors in order to converge the conflicting interests in the policy process. Since the concept of innovation is...

Modelling Methods for Pharmacoeconomics and Health Technology Assessment

New Health Technologies and Health Workforce in Developing Economies

Abstract This paper focuses on the importance of human health resources in relation to current and future trends in health. It is based on syntheses of reports, publications and economic development processes related to the increasing needs...

Health literacy, digital health literacy and the implementation of digital health technologies in cancer care: the need for a strategic approach

ISSUE ADDRESSED: Digital health technologies can potentially reduce health disparities in cancer care. However, the benefits of digital health technology depend partly on users' digital health literacy, that is, "capabilities and resources ...

Changes in the comprehensive unassisted pregnancy rate as a possible marker of declining human fecundity

Abstract Recent decades have seen declining total fertility rates (TFR) globally, alongside increased use of assisted reproductive technology (ART). However, TFR includes ART births and excludes induced abortions, complicating assessments o...

Emerging Health Technology

HEALTH TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT IN DENMARK

The Danish healthcare services are mainly provided by public sector institutions. The system is highly decentralized. The state has little direct influence on the provision of healthcare services. State influence is exercised through legisl...

Should I walk, cycle or drive? Active-to-passive travel directness and mode choice across 15 months of GPS-traced trips

Improving active travel infrastructure may not substantially increase cycling and walking if motorised transport continues to be largely perceived as the easier and more convenient option. Here, we develop a measure of comparative directnes...

Structural analysis of key factors in poverty alleviation for policy development in persistently impoverished provinces in Thailand

IntroductionPoverty remains a persistent and complex challenge in Thailand, particularly in structurally disadvantaged provinces such as Kalasin. Despite multiple national development strategies, poverty rates in Kalasin have remained consi...

Postbiotics: From emerging concept to application

The microbiome innovation has resulted in an umbrella term, postbiotics, which refers to non-viable microbial cells, metabolic byproducts and their microbial components released after lysis. Postbiotics, modulate immune response, gene expre...

An Interrogation into the Effects of International Parenting on the Social and Emotional Health of Adolescents in Three Rural Districts of Zimbabwe

The changing geopolitical environment, economic transformations and technological advancements have prompted the intensified movement of people in a great diversity of forms. Transnational parenting has emerged as a significant and intricat...

Decision Analytic Modelling in the Economic Evaluation of Health Technologies

The impact of non-communicable chronic diseases on the earned income of working age Chinese residents

Abstract This paper used two waves (2016 and 2018) of longitudinal data from the China Families Panel Survey (CFPS) to analyze the economic impact of Non-communicable chronic diseases (NCDs) on individual earned income using propensity scor...

Developing and testing methods for deriving preference-based measures of health from condition-specific measures (and other patient-based measures of outcome)

Objectives: Generic preference-based measures such as EQ-5D are widely used to estimate quality-adjusted life-years but may not be available or, more importantly, appropriate in some medical conditions. Condition-specific preference-based m...

Health Technologies as a Cost-Driver in Canada

This report describes our estimation of the effects of technological change (TC) on health care (HC) expenditures in Canada during the period 1996-2008. We focus on the effect of TC on overall nominal expenditures, as well as the effects of...

The NICE ADHD health technology assessment: A review and critique

BACKGROUND: Health technology assessments (HTAs) by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) enjoy high levels of international attention. The present analysis addresses NICE's appraisal of methylphenidate, atomoxeti...