Abstract

GALVEZ GONZALEZ, Ana María et al. Economic assessment in health care and the decision-making in the health care context. Rev Cubana Salud Pública [online]. 2012, vol.38, n.2, pp. 253-262. ISSN 0864-3466.

Objective: to identify the factors that strengthen and those factors that limit the adequate use of economic assessment as a function of the decision-making process in the Cuban health care system. Methods: there was selected a group of professionals linked to the decision-making process at various contexts of the national health care system. Focal groups for each identified level were organized in addition to making in-depth interviews to chosen managers, physicians, professors and researchers to find their criteria on this issue. Results: practical, methodological and administrative factors that either strengthen or limit the development of economic assessment nationwide were identified. Conclusions: a number of actions were put forward to strengthen the use of economic assessment in health in the decision-making process in Cuba.

Keywords : Economic assessment; decision-making; health economics.

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