It is known that orphan drugs are intended for the treatment of rare diseases, which are of very low prevalence. The pharmaceutical industry has stated that the development…
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Untimely attention to diseases, as well as deficiencies in health care, increase the burden of disease. For thireason, it is necessary to make interventions at the individual and collective level.
Knowledge transfer (KT) is defined by the set of activities aimed at the dissemination of knowledge, experiences and skills in order to facilitate the application and use of knowledge. Unlike the simple transmission of knowledge, which is only directed toward disclosure or teaching, the transfer aims to incorporate knowledge into a value chain.
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“Recovering confidence in the safety and efficacy of the HPV vaccine is of paramount importance to prevent and eliminate cervical cancer that kills almost 300.000 women yearly around the world. It’s a moral obligation to promote HPV vaccination. It will prevent thousands of premature deaths worldwide.”
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“New forms of government no longer depend only on citizens exercising their political rights freely, but also for them to be actively involved in the different fields and stages of public affairs”
One of the critical aspects in the Health Systems is off the access to drugs, but this topic is hindered by many reasons including drug prices, quality, availability, and affordability.
Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPG) are recommendations or statements developed systematically based on the scientific evidence available, clinical experience and the perspective of patients, with the aim of guiding health professionals in decision-making in circumstances specific clinics. Do you want to know more?
Health systems in Latin America are confronted with increasing pressures associated to ageing population, the implementation of policies to achieve universal coverage, higher expectations of population and the adoption of new healthcare technologies that increase healthcare costs.
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As every student in a health economics introductory course learns in the first few days, healthcare provision is a very atypical market. Demand for healthcare behaves in all sorts of particular ways. To quote the Economics Nobel prize winner Kenneth Arrow in his 1963 seminal paper: “The most obvious distinguishing characteristics of an individual’s demand for medical services is that it is not steady in origin as, for example, for food or clothing, but irregular and unpredictable.” (1)
Pay for performance is an incentive payment scheme for health providers according to compliance with proposed health goals and the quality of services provided. Neuroeconomix offers a summary of the pay for performance scheme and its possible application in the Colombian health system.
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