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Revista Peruana de Medicina Experimental y Salud Publica
Print version ISSN 1726-4634
Abstract
ESPINOZA, Manuel; CASTILLO-RIQUELME, Marianela and ZARATE, Victor. Economic evaluations of health technologies: a global perspective for their implementation in Latin America. Rev. perú. med. exp. salud publica [online]. 2011, vol.28, n.3, pp.535-539. ISSN 1726-4634.
Phenomena as the progressive increase of health expenditure and the population aging have lead many countries to consider economic methodologies in order to obtain bigger sanitary benefits in contexts of limited resources. This article describes the basic components to consider in a health technology assessment , it analyses the process of decision making with cost-effectiveness analysis and reports how this methodology has been widely implemented in Latin America and the rest of the world.
Keywords : Health economics; Health technology assessment; Latin America.