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Environmental impact assessment in health technology assessment: principles, approaches, and challenges

Lookup NU author(s): Dr Sarah Walpole

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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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Author(s): Toolan M, Walpole S, Shah K, Kenny J, Jonsson P, Crabb N, Greaves F

Publication type: Article

Publication status: Published

Journal: International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care

Year: 2023

Volume: 39

Issue: 1

Online publication date: 23/02/2023

Acceptance date: 15/01/2023

Date deposited: 09/03/2023

ISSN (print): 0266-4623

ISSN (electronic): 1471-6348

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0266462323000041

DOI: 10.1017/S0266462323000041

PubMed id: 36815229

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