In Australia, HTAs for medicines are carried out in two phases. First, a pharmaceutical company makes a submission to the Therapeutic Goods Administration, which assesses a medicine’s efficacy and safety. If the medicine is approved, an application can be made to the Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Committee (PBAC) to have the medicine subsidised by the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS). Th...

This survey is intended to be an opportunity for you to provide the Provost's Academic Computing Advisory Committee (PACAC) with your input, views, and recommendations during the Course Management System (CMS) review process. Some of the questions maybe technical or business rules related that are outside your sphere of experience or interest. Answer those questions that you feel provide your k...

This paper examines how a group of grassroots activists successfully lobbied for the creation of a lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) persons' population health advisory committee members balanced the at time conflicting interests of an institutional structure (the public health system) with those communities historically marginal to such institutions. The specific achievements and c...

The purpose of this research was to develop tools applicable to the Health Impact Assessment (HIA) in Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) in a Thai context. The relevant documents and articles were extensively reviewed, analyzed, and drafted. The first draft was presented to a research advisory committee for their review, and the recommended changes were subsequently made. The second draft wa...

sudden, unexpected death may occur in apparently healthy individuals. its occurrence in psychiatric patients has raised the concern that the use of psychotropics, especially antipsychotics, may be associated with an increased risk of sudden death. this concern is maintained even though not all psychiatric patients who have succumbed to sudden death have been on psychotropics. early reports pres...