Imperial College London
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Jeff Imai-Eaton

Faculty of Medicine, School of Public Health

Senior Research Fellow
 
 
 
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jeffrey.eaton

 
 
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UG7Norfolk PlaceSt Mary's Campus

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Publications

Citation

BibTex format

@inbook{Revill:2020,
author = {Revill, P and Phillips, A and Eaton, JW and Hallett, TB},
booktitle = {Global Health Economics: Shaping Health Policy In Low- And Middle-income Countries},
pages = {275--285},
title = {Modelling and economic evaluation to inform WHO HIV treatment guidelines},
year = {2020}
}
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TY  - CHAP
AB  - International organizations influence national-level health sector priorities by affecting how much funding is available for health care delivery within countries and how that funding is used. The setting of guidelines for the management of diseases (e.g. for malaria, child health, nutrition) by the World Health Organization (WHO) exerts particular influence. Guidelines typically provide syntheses of evidence on clinical efficacy and effectiveness and make recommendations for health care best practice. However, for the most part, they do not well inform the allocation of limited available health care resources. Consequentially, they risk encouraging national and international decision-makers to divert resources away from areas of greater potential gains in population health. In this case study, we reflect upon efforts to incorporate economic evidence into the development of the WHO HIV Treatment Guidelines. We describe how the WHO has incorporated economic insight into these and other guidelines. However, even in this case, the processes currently followed for guideline development can limit the extent to which recommendations can draw upon economic evidence. Changes in the way WHO Guidelines are developed and interpreted, and how evidence is used to inform decision-making at the country level, is therefore required. We give our thoughts on what these changes could be.
AU  - Revill,P
AU  - Phillips,A
AU  - Eaton,JW
AU  - Hallett,TB
EP  - 285
PY  - 2020///
SN  - 9789813272361
SP  - 275
TI  - Modelling and economic evaluation to inform WHO HIV treatment guidelines
T1  - Global Health Economics: Shaping Health Policy In Low- And Middle-income Countries
ER  -
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