Toolan, M., Walpole, S. orcid.org/0000-0003-2600-0386, Shah, K. orcid.org/0000-0002-4927-7858 et al. (4 more authors) (2023) Environmental impact assessment in health technology assessment: principles, approaches, and challenges. International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care, 39 (1). e13. pp. 1-4. ISSN 0266-4623
Abstract
To reduce harm to the environment resulting from the production, use, and disposal of health technologies, there are different options for how health technology assessment (HTA) agencies can consider environmental information. We identified four approaches that HTA agencies can use to take environmental information into account in healthcare decision making and the challenges associated with each approach. Republishing data that is in the public domain or has been submitted to an HTA agency we term the “information conduit” approach. Analyzing and presenting environmental data separately from established health economic analyses is described as “parallel evaluation.” Integrating environmental impact into HTAs by identifying or creating new methods that allow clinical, financial, and environmental information to be combined in a single quantitative analysis is “integrated evaluation.” Finally, evidence synthesis and analysis of health technologies that are not expected to improve health-related outcomes but claim to have relative environmental benefits are termed “environment-focused evaluation.”
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2023 The author(s). Published by Cambridge University Press. This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution and reproduction, provided the original article is properly cited. |
Keywords: | environmental sustainability; health policy; health technology assessment; Environment; Biomedical Technology; Technology Assessment, Biomedical |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health (Sheffield) > School of Medicine and Population Health |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 29 Jan 2024 15:07 |
Last Modified: | 29 Jan 2024 15:07 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Cambridge University Press (CUP) |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1017/s0266462323000041 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:207871 |