Incorporating healthcare access and equity in economic evaluations: a scoping review of guidelines.

ABSTRACT:

Background

International development agendas increasingly push for access to healthcare for all through universal healthcare coverage. Health economic evaluations and health technology assessment (HTA) could provide evidence to support this but do not routinely incorporate consideration of equitable access.

Methods

We undertook an international scoping review of health economic evaluation and HTA guidelines to examine how well issues of healthcare access and equity are represented, evidence recommendations, and gaps in current guidance to support evidence generation in this area. Guidelines were sourced from guideline repositories and websites of international agencies and organizations providing best practice methods guidance. Articles providing methods guidance for the con

SUBMITTER: Dawkins B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11579673 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature