embedding health technology assessment (hta) in a fair process has great potential to capture societal values relevant to public reimbursement decisions on health technologies. however, the development of such processes for priority setting has largely been theoretical. in this paper, we provide further practical lead ways on how these processes can be implemented. we first present the misconce...

mental health is an essential component for positive adaptation that enables people to cope with adversity to achieve their full potential and humanity. in this study, using a community based approach, the social determinants of mental health in iranian women were extracted; and in addition, priority setting for interventional programs according to analytical framework of who was implemented.th...

cost-effectiveness data is useful for use in priority setting decisions in order to improve the efficiency of resources used. this paper thereby responds to eckard et al. which addressed the use of cost-effectiveness data in the actual prioritization decisions in the swedish national clinical guidelines for heart diseases. based on a set of experiences on the use of economic evaluation in prior...

in a recent editorial for this journal, el-jardali and fadlallah proposed a new framework for knowledge translation (kt) in healthcare. many such frameworks already exist; thus, new entrants to the field must be scrutinized in regard to their unique contributions to advancing understanding and practice. the el-jardali and fadlallah framework focuses on policy-level discussions, a relatively und...

BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVE Priority setting in health research is a dynamic process. Different organizations and institutes have been working in the field of research priority setting for many years. In 1999 the Global Forum for Health Research presented a research priority setting tool called the Combined Approach Matrix or CAM. Since its development, the CAM has been successfully applied to set r...