Conducting a health technology assessment in the West Bank, occupied Palestinian territory: lessons from a feasibility project.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To achieve universal health coverage (UHC), countries must make difficult choices to optimize the use of scarce resources. There is a growing interest in using evidence-based priority setting processes, such as Health Technology Assessment (HTA), to inform these decisions. In 2020, the Palestinian Institute of Public Health (PNIPH) and the Norwegian Institute of Public Health (NIPH) initiated a pilot to test the feasibility of coproducing an HTA on breast cancer screening in the West Bank, occupied Palestinian Territory. Additionally, a secondary aim was to test whether using an adaptive HTA (aHTA) approach that searched and transferred published evidence syntheses could increase the speed of HTA production.

Methods

The applied stepwise approach to the HTA is desc

SUBMITTER: Isbeih M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11569958 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature