Value, Affordability, and Decision Making

Efficient decisions about allocating health care budgets require assessment of the effects of health care interventions and the value for money they provide. Decision-making processes leading to funding decisions should be structured and evidence-based.

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Challenges and Opportunities for Improving Benefit-Risk Assessment of Pharmaceuticals from an Economic Perspective

1 August 2008

This Briefing reports the discussions of a group of experts at an OHE workshop on the benefit-risk assessments of drugs. The objective was to identify how…

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Health Systems Performance Assessment

1 April 2006

Annual lecture by Christopher Murray, who speaks in the UK about the work on health systems performance assessment (HSPA) at the World Health Organization. He gives…