The Role of Health Technology Assessment in Redesigning Chronic Disease Services
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2023) | Viewed by 16459
Special Issue Editors
Interests: health economics and clinical epidemiology; patient centred care; innovative models of care in chronic disease; health economics; health literacy; application of instruments of behavioral economics in chronic care
Interests: health economics; health promotion and chronic disease prevention; implementation research
2. Maastricht University Medical Center, P. Debyelaan 25, 6229 HX Maastricht, Netherlands
3. Dutch Stroke Knowledge Platform, Oudlaan 4, 3515 GA Utrecht, The Netherlands
Interests: health technology assessment; health care innovations; care coordination; skill mix; mixed methods research
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Health technology assessment (HTA) refers to the systematic evaluation of properties, effects and/or impacts of innovations in healthcare and prevention to redesign health services. It seeks to support informed decisions about alternative policy options by providing robust evidence presented in an understandable way. Decisions about redesigning chronic disease services involve questions regarding social, economic, ethical, and organizational aspects. HTA consists of a multidisciplinary toolbox which can support decision makers at the national, provincial, regional and local level, who have to allocate scarce resources, while considering access to care, preferences of patients and other stakeholders, feasibility of implementation, as well as patients’ health literacy, health behavior and disease management skills when redesigning chronic disease services.
This Special Issue, entitled “The Role of Health Technology Assessment in Redesigning Chronic Disease Services”, in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, Section Health Economics, seeks high-quality research articles with novel applications of HTA methods to improve and redesign chronic disease services and supports the patient-centeredness of care. The scope of this issue includes comparative economic analyses, the economic impact of new models of care, preferences of patients and other stakeholders to inform the redesign of health services delivery, organizations and public health programs, behavioral economic studies to support self-management in chronic care and analyses of panel data to assess socio-economic and health system influences on chronic disease disparities. This Special Issue welcomes original scientific contributions based on empirical methods, modeling studies, behavioral experiments, as well as theoretical frameworks and critical reviews.
Prof. Dr. Stephanie Stock
Dr. Adrienne Alayli
Dr. Bert Vrijhoef
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- health technology assessment
- decision-making
- chronic disease
- redesign
- application of economic methods
- economic evaluation
- cost-analysis
- cost-effectiveness
- preferences
- economic burden
- health services research
- behavioral economics
- equity