Aplicacion Del Analisis Coste Efectividad De Los Medicamentos Y Los Programas De Salud En La Planificacion Sanitaria

The ultimate purpose of this book on economic evaluation is to be a text for consultation and inspiration to anyone who wishes to design, carry out and analyse an economic evaluation of a drug or health technology, in order to obtain valid and quality results and thus serve to make better health-related decisions in our country. Unfortunately, the resources available in our National Health System to cover all the healthcare needs of our society are ever more limited; therefore, it is absolutely necessary to prioritise the allocation of resources and to use these resources to finance the therapeutic options that are most efficacious, safe and cost-effective (that will achieve the best health results in patients with the monetary investment carried out). Economic evaluations will be instruments of invaluable help for healthcare professionals and other decision-making agents of the system when it comes to making a more efficient use of existing resources, maximising the therapeutic benefit.

Contiene: Una introduccion al tema de la evaluacion economica en salud; Analisis de costos; Analisis de costo-efectividad; Analisis de costo-utilidad; Analisis de costo-beneficio; Lectura critica de articulo de EES.

Un modelo de diagnóstico del sistema sanitario es requisito previo en cualquier intento de reforma porque ofrece una radiografía de su validez. Se trata de una herramienta conceptual útil para los profesionales afectados por la reforma a nivel macro, ya que facilita un mecanismo heurístico a los responsables y un punto de partida necesario para el proceso de toma de decisiones. Encontrar un buen modelo de diagnóstico no es fácil y en la mayoría de los casos son incompletos. En el intento por contribuir a los planteamientos teóricos y prácticos, se ofrece un modelo descriptivo y predictivo que no pretende ser una categorización conceptual sino una especificación de las variables y sus interrelaciones en el diseño que representa un sistema de salud real. INDICE: Salud, sanidad y política sanitaria. Sistema y modelo sanitarios: perspectivas. Diagnóstico de un sistema de salud. Proceso de planificación. Alcance del proceso de planificación. Valoración de necesidades y de utilización de servicios. Implicados en el proceso de planificación.

The EUROHIS project has focused on the comparability of health surveys and has uncovered some problems that arise when aiming to compare data from different countries. Similar problems of cross-cultural comparability also arise when comparing data from other sources, such as health registers, and are just as complex and difficult to tackle. One of the main advantages of health surveys, however, is the relatively low cost and time involved in adapting them according to the needs of health policy-makers. This work shows that the output from the EUROHIS project provides common instruments for the measurement of eight health indicators. The development of these instruments has required careful consideration of relevant common concepts and how these should be defined and operationalized. The instruments are freely available for use by all countries, with the aim of enhancing national health information systems and facilitating cross-national comparisons of health data.