scholarly journals One size fits all? On the institutionalization of participatory technology assessment and its interconnection with national ways of policy-making: the cases of Switzerland and Austria

2012 ◽  
Vol 9 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 61-80 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erich Griessler
Keyword(s):  
Technology Assessment ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Participatory Technology Assessment

Problem-Oriented Technology Innovation and Participatory Technology Assessment in China

2021 ◽  
pp. 69-83
Author(s):  
Chunfang Zhou ◽  
Lars Bo Henriksen ◽  
Søren Kerndrup
Keyword(s):  
Technology Assessment ◽  
Knowledge Economy ◽  
Technology Innovation ◽  
Cultural Contexts ◽  
Innovation Research ◽  
Participatory Technology Assessment ◽  
The World ◽  
Innovation Approach ◽  
Innovation Challenge ◽  
Oriented Approach

China is developing an ‘innovation-oriented nation' and meanwhile meeting challenges in both innovation practice and research. This chapter contributes to the book that introduces a problem-oriented approach to develop innovation research to a Chinese context that responses to the increasing challenges. Three questions will be focused on: 1) What are the main problems and challenges of innovation and research in China to become a front runner in the knowledge economy? 2) What is a problem-oriented innovation approach? and 3) How does it conceptualize the China's innovation challenge? Briefly, this chapter deepens the understanding of a new conceptual framework of a problem-oriented approach to innovation research and suggests new methods of technology assessment to China. It also provides implications for researchers in other cultural contexts around the world.

scholarly journals Health Technology Assessment for Policy Making in India: Current Scenario and Way Forward

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-3 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shankar Prinja ◽  
Laura E. Downey ◽  
Vijay K. Gauba ◽  
Soumya Swaminathan
Keyword(s):  
Health Technology Assessment ◽  
Technology Assessment ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Health Technology ◽  
Current Scenario

scholarly journals CHALLENGES IN CONTEMPORARY HEALTH TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT: A VIEW FROM THE OUTSIDE

2016 ◽  
Vol 32 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 1-2 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wija Oortwijn ◽  
Gert Jan van der Wilt
Keyword(s):  
Health Technology Assessment ◽  
Technology Assessment ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Evidence Synthesis ◽  
Health Technology ◽  
Healthcare Policy ◽  
Economic Modeling ◽  
Harvard University ◽  
Norman Daniels

The Special Interest Group on Ethics and HTA (health technology assessment) has invited two renowned philosophers, Norman Daniels from Harvard University and Henry Richardson from Georgetown University to reflect on the role of HTA in healthcare policy making. Both acknowledge its importance, but at the same time warn against a too mechanistic deployment of HTA. In their view, the relevance of HTA to healthcare policy making would considerably be enhanced if it were subsumed within a broader deliberative framework. Why should this be so? What is there to deliberate on, who should do the deliberating, where and when, and how does this relate to the more technical elements of HTA such as evidence synthesis and economic modeling?

scholarly journals INTELLIGENCE AND TRANSPARENCY IN HEALTH TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT

2016 ◽  
Vol 32 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 3-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Henry S. Richardson
Keyword(s):  
Health Technology Assessment ◽  
Technology Assessment ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Health Technology ◽  
Quality Adjusted Life Years ◽  
Human Capabilities ◽  
Current Thinking ◽  
Life Years ◽  
Subjective Preference ◽  
Subjective Importance

Current thinking about the methodology of health technology assessment (HTA) seems to be dominated by two fundamental tensions: [1] between maintaining a tight focus on quality-adjusted life-years and broadening its concern out to pay attention to a broader range of factors, and [2] between thinking of the evaluative dimensions that matter as being objectively important factors or as ones that are ultimately of merely subjective importance. In this study, I will argue that health is a tremendously important all-purpose means to enjoying basic human capabilities, but a mere means, and not an end. The ends to which health is a means are manifold, requiring all those engaged in policy making to exercise intelligence in a continuing effort to identify them and to think through how they interrelate. Retreating to the subjective here would be at odds with the basic idea of HTA, which is to focus on certain objectively describable dimensions of what matters about health and to collect empirical evidence rigorously bearing on what produces improvements along those dimensions. To proceed intelligently in doing HTA, it is important to stay open to reframing and refashioning the ends we take to apply to that arena. The only way for that to happen, as an exercise of public, democratic policy making, is for the difficult value questions that arise when ends clash not to be buried in subjective preference information, but to be front-and-center in the analysis.

Health technology assessment and its influence on health-care priority setting

2004 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adam Oliver ◽  
Elias Mossialos ◽  
Ray Robinson
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Technology Assessment ◽  
Technology Assessment ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Clinical Medicine ◽  
Health Technology ◽  
The Past ◽  
Stakeholder Perspectives ◽  
Health Care Priority Setting ◽  
Perceived Relevance

In this article, we review the development of health technology assessment (HTA) in England and Wales, France, The Netherlands, and Sweden, and we summarize the reaction to these developments from a variety of different disciplinary and stakeholder perspectives (political science, sociology, economics, ethics, public health, general practice, clinical medicine, patients, and the pharmaceutical industry). We conclude that translating HTA into policy is a highly complex business and that, despite the growth of HTA over the past two decades, its influence on policy making, and its perceived relevance for people from a broad range of different perspectives, remains marginal.

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