Intervention Scalability Assessment Tool: A decision support tool for health policy makers and implementers

Health impact assessment: a tool to help policy makers understand health beyond health care.

Health impact assessment (HIA)--a combination of methods to examine formally the potential health effects of a proposed policy, program, or project--has received considerable interest over the past decade internationally as a practical mechanism for collaborating with other sectors to address the environmental determinants of health and to achieve more effectively the goals of population health...

AdViSHE: A Validation-Assessment Tool of Health-Economic Models for Decision Makers and Model Users

BACKGROUND A trade-off exists between building confidence in health-economic (HE) decision models and the use of scarce resources. We aimed to create a practical tool providing model users with a structured view into the validation status of HE decision models, to address this trade-off. METHODS A Delphi panel was organized, and was completed by a workshop during an international conference. ...

An Introduction to Policy Delphi; A tool for discovering the opposing views on health policy issues

Objective: In this review, we investigated various aspects of Policy Delphi technique to make decision-makers more aware of this pertinent method so that they can use it in their policy decisions in their organizations. Information sources and selected methods for study: This study was conducted using a review method and by searching the related literature in databases such as PubMed, Scopus a...

Scalability Analysis of the RADAR Decision Support Tool

This report presents a theoretical complexity analysis and empirical scalability analysis of the Requirements and Architecture Decision Analyser (RADAR) described in a separate paper [1]. We will refer to that paper as the RADAR paper and assume the reader is familiar with its content. Further information can be found in the tool website The analysis of a RADAR model involves four main steps: 1...

Toward a New Comprehensive International Health and Health Care Policy Decision Support Tool