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Health Transition and Needs-Based Technology Planning and Implementation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 March 2009

Chitr Sitthi-Amorn
Chitr Sitthi-Amorn
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Chulalongkorn University
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Abstract

Investment in health can offer additional benefits to development independent of economic improvement. Many technologies have been useful in improving the health of the people in the past. However, rapid and often unpredictable change has contributed to the inequity, inefficiency, and rising cost of health care. This paper outlines why a needs-based approach to assessing any new technology in the health sector is essential. To respond to changing needs, capacities within the health care system, several of which are described here, must be strengthened. Needs-based technology planning and implementation is affordable and feasible and is crucial in order that both health as a basic human right and good health at low cost can be attained.

Type
Special Section: Needs-Based Technology Assessment: Who Can Afford Not to Use It?
Information
International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care , Volume 11 , Issue 4 , Fall 1995 , pp. 663 - 672
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1995

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