Integrating Environmental Impact in Health Technology Assessment: An Exploratory Study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To what extent a care pathway, due to its associated pollution, may be more detrimental to future health than beneficial to contemporary patients is still an open question. We present a methodological framework to integrate pollutant-induced future health damages in health technology assessment (HTA) metrics like quality-adjusted life years (QALYs) and incremental cost-effectiveness ratios (ICERs) for a better evaluation of the cost effectiveness of care pathways.

Methods

We used the ReCiPe model to estimate the future detrimental health impact (in disability-adjusted life years [DALY]) of pollutants from the US healthcare system, showing the major impact of GHG emissions compared with other pollutants. An adapted version of the ReCiPe model was used to convert GHG

SUBMITTER: Ducrot C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12450120 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature