ISPOR’s Initiative on US Value Assessment Frameworks: Seeking a Role for Health Economics

A review of health impact assessment frameworks.

BACKGROUND Consideration of health impacts of non-health sector policies has been encouraged in many countries, with health impact assessment (HIA) increasingly used worldwide for this purpose. HIA aims to assess the potential impacts of a proposal and make recommendations to improve the potential health outcomes and minimize inequalities. Although many of the same techniques can be used, such ...

Are health economics making us sick?

Evaluating Frameworks That Provide Value Measures for Health Care Interventions.

The recent acceleration of scientific discovery has led to greater choices in health care. New technologies, diagnostic tests, and pharmaceuticals have widely varying impact on patients and populations in terms of benefits, toxicities, and costs, stimulating a resurgence of interest in the creation of frameworks intended to measure value in health. Many of these are offered by providers and/or ...

The role of health economics.

One group is likely to benefit especially from the proposed changes in the National Health Service: economists. As more emphasis is placed on market transactions so the demand for economic analysis will grow. The age of "econocrats" is about to begin.' Hence the importance of looking critically at the discipline and its claim to use rational techniques ofanalysis to resolve the complex problems...

Health Economics and Aging

Objectives: In this paper, aging with its different dimensions is discussed. The characteristics of elderly's life in relation to individual, social, and changes meet aging together with attitudes toward it and major components of elderly are explained. Disease and burden of disease of aging as a central to the areas of Health and Health Economics will be emphasized. The influential factors on ...