Health Decision Analysis: Evolution, Trends, and Emerging Topics

Health remains one of the most challenging realms for decision makers and policy making while critical well-being humans, stability societies, development economies. Decision in this field ranges from medical doctors identifying best treatments patients, healthcare companies selecting promising drugs development, providers deciding adequate levels resourcing, health regulators whether to approve a new medicine or technology, regional national departments how increase security regions countries. In positioning paper, introduction Special Issue, we present history, evolution, trends analysis suggest that these developments news can be conceptualized as an emerging applied research our discipline: Analysis.