01Evidence
Assessment and synthesis
Clinical effectiveness, diagnostic evidence, systematic reviews, transferability and structured appraisal of uncertainty.
Research area 02
Health economics & HTA
How evidence, value and opportunity cost can support fairer decisions in resource-constrained health systems.
This programme brings together health economics, health technology assessment, economic evaluation and evidence appraisal. Its emphasis is practical: how decision-makers can compare technologies, programmes and policy options while making uncertainty, equity and implementation constraints visible.
- Relevant works
- 00
- Curated resources
- 05
- Investigations
- 00
- Active vocabulary
- 21
Research map
Three connected lines of inquiry.
The map keeps the programme broad enough to grow while making its boundaries and analytical emphasis visible.
02Value
Economic evaluation
Cost-effectiveness, budget impact, outcomes, opportunity cost, distributional effects and decision modelling.
03Systems
Policy and implementation
HTA institutions, priority setting, stakeholder participation and the translation of evidence into health-system decisions.
Current questions
Questions that organise the work.
These are programme-level questions. Individual studies define narrower populations, interventions, systems, jurisdictions and periods.
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Which evidence should inform adoption, reimbursement and disinvestment decisions in resource-constrained health systems?
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How should economic evaluation represent uncertainty, equity, affordability and local implementation capacity?
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What institutional arrangements allow HTA findings to influence policy transparently and consistently?
Research programme
Workstreams, not content buckets.
Each stream can contain projects, publications, evidence reviews, methods, datasets and public outputs without duplicating their underlying records.
Clinical, economic and implementation evidence
Reviews that connect intervention effects with costs, feasibility, equity and policy relevance.
Decision-ready assessment dossiers
Structured assessments of technologies and programmes, with explicit assumptions, uncertainty and local evidence needs.
Transparent economic reasoning
Study materials, worked examples and visual explanations of economic evaluation and health-system decision methods.
Selected work
Research, analysis and public records.
Records are drawn from reviewed programme assignments and retain their existing catalogue, publication and canonical identities.
Browse the catalogueNo public catalogue records are assigned to this programme yet.
No current work meets both the programme’s reviewed membership criteria and the site’s public publication criteria.
Browse the complete catalogueResearch library
Six evidence and communication shelves.
Authorship and evidence type remain explicit. Curated scholarship is never presented as Dr. Arachchige’s publication, and policy or industry material is not presented as peer-reviewed evidence.
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Evidence syntheses
Systematic, scoping and mixed-methods reviews with methods, status, search dates and update policies disclosed.
No public records yet 02 00
Published work
Peer-reviewed outputs, dissertations, reports, investigations and external publications represented by one canonical record.
No public records yet 03 02
Research by others
Annotated landmark and current studies selected for relevance, quality and their relationship to the active questions.
Reviewed selection 04 02
Policy & industry reports
Regulator, government, standards-body, institutional and industry material, separated from peer-reviewed evidence.
Reviewed selection 05 01
Books & long-form
A selective reading path through foundational and directly relevant books, monographs and chapters.
Initial reviewed selection 06 00
Visual & public communication
Public explainers, talks, timelines and visual material with a traceable evidence basis.
Developing collectionResearch by others
A bounded selection of landmark or directly relevant scholarly work; it is not represented as a comprehensive bibliography.
Consolidated Health Economic Evaluation Reporting Standards 2022 (CHEERS 2022) statement: updated reporting guidance for health economic evaluations
Don Husereau, Michael Drummond, Federico Augustovski and others · BMJ
Provides the current reporting framework for transparent and decision-useful economic evaluations, including context, stakeholders and distributional considerations.
- Evidence for adoption, reimbursement and disinvestment
- Uncertainty, equity and affordability
- Clinical, economic and implementation evidence
- Transparent economic reasoning
- DOI: 10.1136/bmj-2021-067975
Recommendations for Conduct, Methodological Practices, and Reporting of Cost-effectiveness Analyses
Gillian D. Sanders, Peter J. Neumann, Anirban Basu and 13 others · American Medical Association
Sets methodological and reporting recommendations for reference-case cost-effectiveness analysis used in decision-oriented health economics.
- Editorial note
- Scite records a published erratum (DOI 10.1001/jama.2016.15518); users should consult the corrected article record.
- Uncertainty, equity and affordability
- Institutional arrangements for HTA
- Decision-ready assessment dossiers
- Transparent economic reasoning
- DOI: 10.1001/jama.2016.12195
Policy & industry reports
A bounded selection of authoritative policy, legal, standards or institutional material, kept distinct from peer-reviewed scholarship.
NICE HealthTech programme manual
National Institute for Health and Care Excellence · National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
Provides a current operational model for prioritisation, evaluation, stakeholder participation and guidance production in a national HealthTech programme.
- Jurisdiction
- United Kingdom
- Status
- Current NICE process and methods manual
- Status reviewed
- 30 Aug 2026
- Editorial note
- Published 14 July 2025 and last updated 17 December 2025.
- Evidence for adoption, reimbursement and disinvestment
- Institutional arrangements for HTA
- Decision-ready assessment dossiers
- REPORT‑NUMBER: PMG48
Health intervention and technology assessment in support of universal health coverage
World Health Assembly · World Health Organization
Establishes an international policy basis for institutionalising health intervention and technology assessment in support of universal health coverage.
- Jurisdiction
- International
- Status
- World Health Assembly resolution
- Evidence for adoption, reimbursement and disinvestment
- Institutional arrangements for HTA
- Decision-ready assessment dossiers
- REPORT‑NUMBER: WHA67.23
Books & long-form
A selective reading path of foundational or directly relevant books and monographs.
Decision Modelling for Health Economic Evaluation
Andrew Briggs, Karl Claxton, Mark Sculpher · Oxford University Press
Provides a foundational methods reference for probabilistic decision modelling, uncertainty and value-of-information analysis in health economic evaluation.
- Uncertainty, equity and affordability
- Decision-ready assessment dossiers
- Transparent economic reasoning
- DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198526629.001.0001
- ISBN‑13: 9780198526629
Visual & public communication
No public item is included until its source basis, authorship and programme relevance are verified.
No public resource is currently included on this shelf.
Developing collection; no verified public resource is currently exposed.
Research vocabulary
A visible topic language for people and machines.
Terms describe the actual programme, methods and settings. They support internal navigation and scholarly discovery without repeating hidden or irrelevant keyword lists.
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Core concepts
- health economics
- health technology assessment
- HTA
- economic evaluation
- cost-effectiveness
- budget impact analysis
- priority setting
- health-system decision-making
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Methods
- cost-utility analysis
- quality-adjusted life year
- decision modelling
- sensitivity analysis
- evidence appraisal
- systematic review
- distributional cost-effectiveness
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Contexts
- Sri Lanka health system
- non-communicable diseases
- universal health coverage
- resource-constrained settings
- public health policy
- health equity
Open research infrastructure
Public assets only when the record exists.
Protocols, registrations, datasets, code, evidence ledgers and citation exports appear here only after their public destination and current version have been verified.
Availability is not implied.
No programme-level protocol, dataset, code package, evidence ledger or citation export has been verified as publicly accessible under the M4 asset contract.
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Use the research-area address as the stable entry point; individual outputs and external resources retain their own authorship, publication and citation records.
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