Ethical Health Technology Assessment in Latin America: Lessons from Canada and Argentina

A wide array of biomedical and genetic technologies is becoming available in both developed and developing nations. This situation is the cause of growing concern for health policy makers who must evaluate the utility of these technologies for their inclusion in public health insurance programs. Ide...

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Autores principales: Martin, Carolina, Williams Jones, Bryn, Ortúzar, María Graciela de
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Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: 2011
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Acceso en línea:http://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/handle/10915/90989
http://www.memoria.fahce.unlp.edu.ar/library?a=d&c=arti&d=Jpr8651
https://actabioethica.uchile.cl/index.php/AB/article/view/17740
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topic Filosofía
Ciencias Médicas
Evaluación tecnologías sanitarias
Bioética
Política
Genética
Pruebas prenatales
Argentina
Canadá
Health technology assessment
Bioethics
Policy
Genetics
Prenatal tests
spellingShingle Filosofía
Ciencias Médicas
Evaluación tecnologías sanitarias
Bioética
Política
Genética
Pruebas prenatales
Argentina
Canadá
Health technology assessment
Bioethics
Policy
Genetics
Prenatal tests
Martin, Carolina
Williams Jones, Bryn
Ortúzar, María Graciela de
Ethical Health Technology Assessment in Latin America: Lessons from Canada and Argentina
topic_facet Filosofía
Ciencias Médicas
Evaluación tecnologías sanitarias
Bioética
Política
Genética
Pruebas prenatales
Argentina
Canadá
Health technology assessment
Bioethics
Policy
Genetics
Prenatal tests
description A wide array of biomedical and genetic technologies is becoming available in both developed and developing nations. This situation is the cause of growing concern for health policy makers who must evaluate the utility of these technologies for their inclusion in public health insurance programs. Ideally, policy makers would have the information necessary to rationally allocate scarce resources, prioritise technologies, and ensure fair access to necessary health care services. The reality, however, is that policy makers often do not have such information. In this paper, we argue that the field of Health Technology Assessment (HTA), through the integration of ethical analyses (i.e., an "ethical HTA"), can enable Argentinean and other Latin American policy makers to better understand the soco-ethical concerns raised by new biotechnologies.
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Williams Jones, Bryn
Ortúzar, María Graciela de
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Williams Jones, Bryn
Ortúzar, María Graciela de
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title Ethical Health Technology Assessment in Latin America: Lessons from Canada and Argentina
title_short Ethical Health Technology Assessment in Latin America: Lessons from Canada and Argentina
title_full Ethical Health Technology Assessment in Latin America: Lessons from Canada and Argentina
title_fullStr Ethical Health Technology Assessment in Latin America: Lessons from Canada and Argentina
title_full_unstemmed Ethical Health Technology Assessment in Latin America: Lessons from Canada and Argentina
title_sort ethical health technology assessment in latin america: lessons from canada and argentina
publishDate 2011
url http://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/handle/10915/90989
http://www.memoria.fahce.unlp.edu.ar/library?a=d&c=arti&d=Jpr8651
https://actabioethica.uchile.cl/index.php/AB/article/view/17740
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