Purpose: The impact of financial burden among patients with cancer has not yet been
measured in a way that accounts for inter-relationships between quality of life, perceived …

Social participation, also termed stakeholder voice, is an important component of health
system governance. Increased interactions between the community and policy makers could …

Background Coverage decisions determining the benefit baskets of health systems have
been increasingly relying on evidence regarding patient benefit and costs. Relevant …

Given the cost constraints of the European health-care systems, criteria are needed to
decide which genetic services to fund from the public budgets, if not all can be covered. To …

Major efforts worldwide have been made to provide balanced Mental Health (MH) care. Any
integrated MH ecosystem includes hospital and community-based care, highlighting the role …

Decision-makers need to make choices to improve public health. Population-based
newborn screening (NBS) is considered as one strategy to prevent adverse health outcomes …

Background There is a gap between health economic evaluation methods and the value
judgments of coverage decision makers, at least in Germany. Measuring preference …

Coverage decision-making (CDM) means to regulate reimbursement and diffusion of health
technologies. Following the rise of evidence-based medicine more than two decades ago …

Das achte Kapitel widmet sich den folgenden Fragen:(Wie) kann für das Produkt die
Erstattung durch Kostenträger erreicht werden? Welche Wege in die Vergütung gibt es bzw …