Integrating health technology assessment and the right to health: a qualitative content analysis of procedural values in South African judicial decisions.

ABSTRACT: South Africa's move towards implementing National Health Insurance includes a commitment to establish a health technology assessment (HTA) body to inform health priority-setting decisions. This study sought to analyse health rights cases in South Africa to inform the identification of country-specific procedural values related to health priority-setting and their implementation in a South African HTA body. The focus on health rights cases is motivated in part by the fact that case law can be an important source of insight into the values of a particular country. This focus is further motivated by a desire to mitigate the potential tension between a rights-based approach to healthcare access and national efforts to set health priorities. A qualitative content analysis of eight South African

SUBMITTER: DiStefano MJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9113169 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature