Starting well before Independence in 1948, and over the ensuing six decades, Israel has
built a robust, relatively efficient public system of health care, resulting in good health …

Objectives: This study sought to identify and compare various practical and current
approaches of health technology assessment (HTA) priority setting. Methods: A literature …

All health care systems face problems of justice and efficiency related to setting priorities for
allocating a limited pool of resources to a population. Because many of the central issues …

The Health Systems in Transition (‎ HiT)‎ profiles are country-based reports that provide a
detailed description of a health system and of policyinitiatives in progress or under …

• Engagement of the public in priority setting in health care is in keeping with the ideals of a
democracy.• Members of the public can provide a crucial perspective about the values and …

Public health practice has to date concerned itself with environmental or social determinants
of health and disease and has paid scant attention to genomic variations within the …

OBJECTIVES: To review the criteria and 'other'considerations used internationally for
prioritizing new health technologies, and to demonstrate a conjoint-analysis methodology …

Health care systems are faced with the challenge of resource scarcity and have insufficient
resources to respond to all health problems and target groups simultaneously. Hence …

Background We sought to analyse the impacts found, and the methods used, in a series of
assessments of programmes and portfolios of health research consisting of multiple projects …

Background Publicly-funded drug plans vary in strategies used and policies employed to
reduce continually increasing pharmaceutical expenditures. We systematically reviewed the …