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Transferability of Health Technology Assessment with Particular Emphasis on Developing Coutries

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 March 2009

Ernst O. Attinger  and
Ronney B. Panerai
Ernst O. Attinger
Affiliation:
University of Virginia
Ronney B. Panerai
Affiliation:
Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
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The importance of health technology assessment for developing countries is unquestionable. Although these countries are still plagues by tropical diseases and primary health problems, they have been forced to import modern medical technologies because of internal and international pressures. Recognition of the potentoial of health technology assessment for improving the management of technology and health care delivery in developing countries leads to the critical question of how to promote the development of assessment activities there. But as technology assessment is itself also a technology, it can be assuned that its direct transfer to developing countries in the form that it has unfolded in the richer nations is doomed to failure. How successful transfer of health technology assessment can be achieved is outlined.

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International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care , Volume 4 , Issue 4 , October 1988 , pp. 545 - 554
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1988

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