Evaluation and Consideration on Equity in Health Technology Assessment
- VernacularTitle:卫生技术评估中公平性的评价与思考
- Author:
Jiahao HU
1
;
Jiayun WANG
;
Xi CHEN
;
Yuhan LIU
;
Chunlin JIN
;
Fen LI
Author Information
1. 上海市卫生和健康发展研究中心(上海市医学科学技术情报研究所) 上海 200040
- Keywords:
health technology assessment;
equity;
measuring health perspective
- From:
Chinese Health Economics
2024;43(1):11-16
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
-
Abstract:
Health technology assessment(HTA)is an important tool to inform health decision-making.Although highly related to ethical issues in the context of HTA,equity has attracted much attention from the academia,a consensus has not yet been reached on how to define and evaluate equity in China and abroad.It introduces the concept of equity,pointes out the necessity to realize health equity and the reflection of equity in healthcare sector,and further elaborates four ways to consider equity,and described the official practice of equity in HTA at home and abroad.It proposes several suggestions for China's HTA:considering equity in HTA and the discussion of equity should depend on specific decision-making scenarios;clarifying what health measurement perspective should be adopted before measuring health equity;paying attention to the value judgment of equity adopted by various stakeholders;conducting basic researches on the general population's preference for health measurement perspectives and value judgments of equity in China in a gesture to improve the evaluation system of equity in HTA.
