Health technology assessment in Europe
15 January 2006
Copenhagen, Denmark. The World Health Organization has produced a policy
brief on health technology assessment: Health technology assessment: an
introduction to objectives, role of evidence, and structure in Europe.
This policy brief introduces the concept of health technology assessment,
which examines the short and long-term consequences on health and resource
use of the application of a health technology. It is concerned with the
medical, organizational, economic and societal consequences of implementing
health technologies or interventions within the health system.
It systematically evaluates the effects of a technology on health, on the
availability and distribution of resources and on other aspects of health
system performance such as equity and responsiveness.
Produced on behalf of the European Observatory on Health Systems and
Policies, the brief it is available as a PDF document at: