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Building Capacity for Evidence-Informed Priority Setting in the Indian Health System: An International Collaborative Experience.

L E Downey, S Dabak, J Eames, Y Teerawattananon, M De Francesco, S Prinja, L Guinness, B Bhargava, K Rajsekar, M Asaria and 6 more

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Article in Health policy OPEN, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

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16 authors.

L E DowneyGlobal Health and Development, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom.
S DabakHealth Intervention Technology Assessment Program (HITAP), Bangkok, Thailand.
J EamesHealth Intervention Technology Assessment Program (HITAP), Bangkok, Thailand.
Y TeerawattananonHealth Intervention Technology Assessment Program (HITAP), Bangkok, Thailand.
M De FrancescoGlobal Health and Development, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom.
S PrinjaSchool of Public Health, Post Graduate Medical Institute of Health Education and Research (PGIMER) Chandigarh, India.
L GuinnessGlobal Health and Development, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom.
B BhargavaDepartment of Health Research, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India, New Delhi, India.
K RajsekarDepartment of Health Research, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India, New Delhi, India.
M AsariaLondon School of Economics and Political Science, London, United Kingdom.
N V RaoGlobal Health and Development, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom.
V SelvarajuGlobal Health and Development, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom.
A MehndirattaGlobal Health and Development, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom.
A CulyerCentre for Health Economics, University of York, York, United Kingdom.
K ChalkidouGlobal Health and Development, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom.
F A CluzeauGlobal Health and Development, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

India's rapid economic growth has been accompanied by slower improvements in population health. Given the need to reconcile the ambitious goal of achieving Universal Coverage with limited resources, a robust priority-setting mechanism is required to ensure that the right trade-offs are made and the impact on health is maximised. Health Technology Assessment (HTA) is endorsed by the World Health Assembly as the gold standard approach to synthesizing evidence systematically for evidence-informed priority setting (EIPS). India is formally committed to institutionalising HTA as an integral component of the EIPS process. The effective conduct and uptake of HTA depends on a well-functioning ecosystem of stakeholders adept at commissioning and generating policy-relevant HTA research, developing and utilising rigorous technical, transparent, and inclusive methods and processes, and a strong multisectoral and transnational appetite for the use of evidence to inform policy. These all require myriad complex and complementary capacities to be built at each level of the health system . In this paper we describe how a framework for targeted and locally-tailored capacity building for EIPS, and specifically HTA, was collaboratively developed and implemented by an international network of priority-setting expertise, and the Government of India.

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Capacity BuildingHealth EconomicsHealth policyHealth Technology AssessmentIndia

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PMID33392500
PMCPMC7772949

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