I. Ceraj, L. M. Alemán, J. T. Riley, M. Kosinski-Collins, M. E. Rokop, K. Vandiver, and C. Shubert Office of Educational Innovation and Technology Massachusetts Institute of Technology Biology Department Massachusetts Institute of Technology Biology Department Brandeis University Educational Outreach Program Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard Center for Environmental Health Sciences Massachuset...

OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to assist in the development of a health technology assessment (HTA) program for the Ministry of Health (MOH) of the Republic of Kazakhstan METHODS Mentoring of an initial HTA program in Kazakhstan was provided by the Canadian Society for International Health (CSIH) by means of a partnership with the Kazakhstan MOH. HTA materials, courses, and one-on-one s...

BACKGROUND Achieving sustainable universal health coverage depends partly on fair priority-setting processes that ensure countries spend scarce resources wisely. While general health economics capacity-strengthening initiatives exist in Africa, less attention has been paid to developing the capacity of individuals, institutions and networks to apply economic evaluation in support of health tech...

Recent educational reforms in developing countries show conscious efforts to completely restructure the education system response Covid-19. This research studied use of modern technology tool tertiary sector, Nigerian and Ugandan systems. Students from public private universities were chosen at random fill out questionnaires provide data order achieve consistent results. SAS Statistics was appl...

BACKGROUND Patient involvement is widely acknowledged to be a valuable component in health technology assessment (HTA) and healthcare decision making. However, quantitative approaches to ascertain patients' preferences for treatment endpoints are not yet established. The objective of this study is to introduce the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) as a preference elicitation method in HTA. Based...

It has been only a little more than a decade since a professional consensus emerged concerning the need to formulate an alternative to industrial arts. Few question the importance of technology education, or the need for a new name to characterize the program area. Technology education, however, is at a critical juncture. What can be questioned is the ability of the profession to clearly articu...