On February 22nd, 2017, CCHO sponsored the ISSP, Institute of Public Health at St. Joseph University event. A scientific presentation entitled” New Challenges of Healthcare Systems: Impact on Quality and Performance” and animated by Dr. Dabbous, highlighted the new challenges governments are facing worldwide: mainly the rising cost of...
There is, at this time, a constant and continuous pressure to find the balancing point between patient access and budget management in the delivery of health care products. Novel interventions are faced with intense scrutiny by payers who need to balance expenditures against fixed health budgets. As such, market...
Economic analysis of healthcare interventions can provide a useful perspective to decision makers regarding the resources allocation. It is only one perspective. It demonstrates the value of an intervention when compared to others that would produce the same or at least similar outcomes. However, it is not the only...