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L’Health Technology Assessment (HTA) e i suoi aspetti etici
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I sistemi sanitari sono chiamati ad affrontare il problema della soddisfazione di crescenti bisogni assistenziali con una quantità di risorse limitata. Tale situazione implica la necessità di ottimizzare a tutti i livelli possibili l’uso delle risorse. In questo contesto, si è sviluppata a livello internazionale un’area di ricerca multidisciplinare, nota come Health Technology Assessment (HTA), atta a valutare, sotto diverse prospettive (clinica, economica, sociale, legale, etica, politica, psicologica, ecc.), l’impiego delle tecnologie in ambito sanitario. L’obiettivo principale è di supportare le decisioni di politica sanitaria. Simile area di ricerca ha assunto un ruolo sempre più importante all’interno di molte organizzazioni ospedaliere europee e nord-americane al punto da rappresentare attualmente il supporto forse più funzionale al management aziendale nelle decisioni che riguardano l’introduzione e l’impiego delle tecnologie sanitarie. Il contributo è volto a introdurre e argomentare il concetto di HTA, gli elementi, gli obiettivi, le problematicità e, soprattutto, gettare le basi di un’articolata riflessione sugli aspetti etici, i quali, sebbene scarsamente dibattuti in letteratura, rappresentano un elemento costitutivo della valutazione delle tecnologie sanitarie. ---------- Health care systems are called to face the problem of the satisfaction of the growing charitable need with a limited amount of resources. Such situation involves the necessity of optimizing the use of the resources on all the possible levels. In this context, a multidisciplinary research area has developed at international level, known as Health Technology Assessment (HTA), fitted to evaluate, under various perspectives (clinical, economic, social, legal, ethical, political, psychological, etc), the use of technologies in health care world. Its main purpose is to inform technology-related policy- making in health care. Similar research area has assumed an ever-growing importance in many European and North-American hospital organizations to such a degree that it represents at this moment the support probably more functional for the business management in decisions which regard the introduction and the use of medical technologies. The contribution wants to introduce and explore the concept of HTA, the elements, the objectives, the problematic natures and, above all, to lay the foundations of an articulate reflection on the ethical aspects, which, even though scantily discussed in literature, represent a constitutive element of the evaluation of medical technologies.
Title: L’Health Technology Assessment (HTA) e i suoi aspetti etici
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I sistemi sanitari sono chiamati ad affrontare il problema della soddisfazione di crescenti bisogni assistenziali con una quantità di risorse limitata.
Tale situazione implica la necessità di ottimizzare a tutti i livelli possibili l’uso delle risorse.
In questo contesto, si è sviluppata a livello internazionale un’area di ricerca multidisciplinare, nota come Health Technology Assessment (HTA), atta a valutare, sotto diverse prospettive (clinica, economica, sociale, legale, etica, politica, psicologica, ecc.
), l’impiego delle tecnologie in ambito sanitario.
L’obiettivo principale è di supportare le decisioni di politica sanitaria.
Simile area di ricerca ha assunto un ruolo sempre più importante all’interno di molte organizzazioni ospedaliere europee e nord-americane al punto da rappresentare attualmente il supporto forse più funzionale al management aziendale nelle decisioni che riguardano l’introduzione e l’impiego delle tecnologie sanitarie.
Il contributo è volto a introdurre e argomentare il concetto di HTA, gli elementi, gli obiettivi, le problematicità e, soprattutto, gettare le basi di un’articolata riflessione sugli aspetti etici, i quali, sebbene scarsamente dibattuti in letteratura, rappresentano un elemento costitutivo della valutazione delle tecnologie sanitarie.
---------- Health care systems are called to face the problem of the satisfaction of the growing charitable need with a limited amount of resources.
Such situation involves the necessity of optimizing the use of the resources on all the possible levels.
In this context, a multidisciplinary research area has developed at international level, known as Health Technology Assessment (HTA), fitted to evaluate, under various perspectives (clinical, economic, social, legal, ethical, political, psychological, etc), the use of technologies in health care world.
Its main purpose is to inform technology-related policy- making in health care.
Similar research area has assumed an ever-growing importance in many European and North-American hospital organizations to such a degree that it represents at this moment the support probably more functional for the business management in decisions which regard the introduction and the use of medical technologies.
The contribution wants to introduce and explore the concept of HTA, the elements, the objectives, the problematic natures and, above all, to lay the foundations of an articulate reflection on the ethical aspects, which, even though scantily discussed in literature, represent a constitutive element of the evaluation of medical technologies.
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