WELCOME TO THE EXPERTS
IN HEALTH- AND
PHARMACO-ECONOMICS.
„HEALTHCARE SYSTEMS ARE
UNDER PRESSURE“
At present, there are many fundamental challenges to the way health care is provided, organised and financed. Medical progress, demographics and peoples’ attitudes all combine to lead to an increased demand for medical goods and services.
Social health care systems have not been able to keep up with these developments over the past decades. A widening gap between affordability and opportunities has thus established itself as an inescapable feature of most national healthcare systems...
Michael Rawlins, NICE:
"If we relied on RCTs and gave them such an important role, we would find ourselves still using thalidomide, we would not accept any association between smoking and lung cancer, and we would not defibrillate patients...."
(Toward a National Pharmaceuticals Strategy.
A summary of the 2006 health policy conference of the UBC Centre for Health Services and Policy Research May 2006 - The University of British Columbia)
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