Equidad en Salud y Evaluación de Tecnologías Sanitarias en Chile

dc.contributor.authorEspinoza, Manuel
dc.contributor.authorCabieses, Báltica
dc.date.accessioned2017-03-30T20:01:02Z
dc.date.available2017-03-30T20:01:02Z
dc.date.issued2014
dc.description.abstractEquity has been recognized as one of the driving principles of many health systems in the world. In Latin America, Chile has led the explicit inclusion of equity in their health policies, which is reflected in its recent health reform. On the other hand, Chile faces the challenge of defining and implementing a policy for health technology assessment (HTA), which should be consistent with the equity principles that underlie the Chilean national health system. This paper reviews the equity concept emphasizing the relevance of socioeconomic inequalities. Furthermore, it examines how international HTA agencies have explicitly included this element in the evaluation and decision processes. It presents the English case, which highlights the elements of procedural justice rather than adopting a normative position regarding equity. Finally, it examines the methods that have been developed aiming to make explicit consideration of equity in HTA. It concludes that the methodological development to incorporate equity elements with empirical basis is recent and limited. The consideration of equity is, in most of the cases, left to the instances of deliberative participation.
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dc.identifier.citationRev Med Chile 2014; 142 (S1): S 45-49
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11447/1074
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.4067/S0034-98872014001300008
dc.language.isospa
dc.publisherSociedad Chilena de Medicina
dc.subjectDecision making
dc.subjectInequalities
dc.subjectSocial justice
dc.subjectTechnology assessment
dc.titleEquidad en Salud y Evaluación de Tecnologías Sanitarias en Chile
dc.title.alternativeEquity in Health and Health Technology Assessment in Chile
dc.typeArtículo

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