Response to the novel corona virus (COVID-19) pandemic across Africa: successes, challenges, and implications for the future

OO Ogunleye, D Basu, D Mueller, J Sneddon… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Background The COVID-19 pandemic has already claimed considerable lives. There are
major concerns in Africa due to existing high prevalence rates for both infectious and non …

Public health system challenges in the Free State, South Africa: A situation appraisal to inform health system strengthening

B Malakoane, JC Heunis, P Chikobvu… - BMC health services …, 2020 - Springer
Background Since the advent of democracy, the South African government has been putting
charters, policies, strategies and plans in place in an effort to strengthen public health …

Domains and processes for institutionalizing evidence-informed health policy-making: a critical interpretive synthesis

T Kuchenmüller, L Boeira, S Oliver, K Moat… - Health research policy …, 2022 - Springer
Background While calls for institutionalization of evidence-informed policy-making (EIP)
have become stronger in recent years, there is a paucity of methods that governments and …

What next after GDP-based cost-effectiveness thresholds?

YL Chi, M Blecher, K Chalkidou, A Culyer… - Gates open …, 2020 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Public payers around the world are increasingly using cost-effectiveness thresholds (CETs)
to assess the value-for-money of an intervention and make coverage decisions. However …

How least developed to lower-middle income countries use health technology assessment: a sco** review

A Falkowski, G Ciminata, F Manca… - … and Global Health, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT Health Technology Assessment (HTA) is a multidisciplinary tool to inform
healthcare decision-making. HTA has been implemented in high-income countries (HIC) for …

[HTML][HTML] Establishing a national HTA program for medical devices in Italy: Overhauling a fragmented system to ensure value and equal access to new medical …

R Tarricone, F Amatucci, P Armeni, H Banks, L Borsoi… - Health Policy, 2021 - Elsevier
Differing contexts have greatly influenced HTA development in various countries, with
considerable effort recently made by international HTA networks (eg, EUnetHTA) and the …

[HTML][HTML] Antimicrobial resistance: is health technology assessment part of the solution or part of the problem?

AR Colson, A Morton, C Årdal, K Chalkidou, SC Davies… - Value in Health, 2021 - Elsevier
Antimicrobial resistance is a serious challenge to the success and sustainability of our
healthcare systems. There has been increasing policy attention given to antimicrobial …

Health technology assessment in sub-Saharan Africa: a descriptive analysis and narrative synthesis

S Hollingworth, AP Fenny, SY Yu, F Ruiz… - Cost Effectiveness and …, 2021 - Springer
Abstract Background Countries in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) are moving towards universal
health coverage. The process of Health Technology Assessment (HTA) can support …

[HTML][HTML] Addressing challenges in health technology assessment institutionalization for furtherance of universal health coverage through south-south knowledge …

T Kim, M Sharma, Y Teerawattananon, C Oh… - Value in Health …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract Health Technology Assessment (HTA), a tool for priority setting, has emerged as a
means of ensuring the sustainability of a Universal Health Coverage (UHC) system …

Factors influencing the institutionalization of health technology assessment: a sco** literature review

R Mbau, A Vassall, L Gilson, E Barasa - Health Systems & Reform, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
There is global interest in institutionalizing Health Technology Assessment (HTA) to inform
resource allocation decisions. However, institutionalization of HTA remains limited …