Journal
HEALTH POLICY
Volume 58, Issue 1, Pages 27-35Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI IRELAND LTD
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-8510(01)00149-X
Keywords
strengths; weaknesses; opportunities and threats analysis; Health technology assessment; Estonia; Health system agencies
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There has been recent interest in developing a health technology assessment (HTA) function in Estonia. A group of individuals knowledgeable about HTA in Canada, Germany. Romania and Spain, along with representatives of the University of Tartu, Estonia, was convened by the Institute of Health Economics in Edmonton, Canada, to consider options for such a function. In a one-day workshop strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats (SWOT) analyses of HTA were conducted, first at a 'global' level, and then of the Estonian situation. The 'global' SWOT analysis yielded a large number of items that pertain to institutionalized HTA in a generic sense, i.e. not based on any individual HTA agency. The 'Estonian' SWOT yielded a subset of items, which pertain to development of HTA in that country. Ten actionable steps were then developed on the basis of this subset, which could be used to initiate the creation of an HTA body in Estonia. (C) 2001 Elsevier Science Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved.
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