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Diversas técnicas têm sido usadas para o tratamento das síndroems coronárias agudas. O autor considera a estratégia stent mais abciximab como a de maior benefício a mais econômica.
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Humans , Coronary Disease/economics , Coronary Disease/drug therapy , Economics, Pharmaceutical/trendsABSTRACT
This paper addresses the most important features of health economics, especially its scope and applications within the sphere of health. Health economics is a field of study which allows countries to gear their health policies toward making more rational use of their resources and expanding and improving their health care services. Such policies should, on the other hand, aim to generate strategies for adequately managing human, technical, economic, and financial resources so as to reap the finest health benefits possible. A knowledge of how economics can be applied to health will enable health professionals to introduce an economics culture into their daily work. In other words, it will allow them to keep in mind the scope of their various working tools¾health planning, national health accounts and accounting, and economic assessment methods, which include health and pharmaceutical technology assessment and pharmacoeconomics¾as well as the place that economics has in health research. Hopefully, a knowledge of these aspects of economic analysis will provide decision-makers with one more tool they can apply in selecting more efficient options and attaining the highest health benefits at the lowest possible cost for the national health system
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Humans , Delivery of Health Care/economics , Delivery of Health Care/methods , Economics, Pharmaceutical/trends , Health Planning/economics , Health Planning/methods , Health Services Research/economics , Health Services Research/methods , National Health Programs/economics , Public Health Administration/economics , Public Health Administration/methods , Technology, Pharmaceutical/economics , Technology, Pharmaceutical/methodsABSTRACT
This paper addresses the most important features of health economics, especially its scope and applications within the sphere of health. Health economics is a field of study which allows countries to gear their health policies toward making more rational use of their resources and expanding and improving their health care services. Such policies should, on the other hand, aim to generate strategies for adequately managing human, technical, economic, and financial resources so as to reap the finest health benefits possible. A knowledge of how economics can be applied to health will enable health professionals to introduce an economics culture into their daily work. In other words, it will allow them to keep in mind the scope of their various working tools--health planning, national health accounts and accounting, and economic assessment methods, which include health and pharmaceutical technology assessment and pharmacoeconomics--as well as the place that economics has in health research. Hopefully, a knowledge of these aspects of economic analysis will provide decision-makers with one more tool they can apply in selecting more efficient options and attaining the highest health benefits at the lowest possible cost for the national health system.
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Delivery of Health Care/economics , Delivery of Health Care/methods , Economics, Pharmaceutical/trends , Health Planning/economics , Health Planning/methods , Health Services Research/economics , Health Services Research/methods , Humans , National Health Programs/economics , Public Health Administration/economics , Public Health Administration/methods , Technology, Pharmaceutical/economics , Technology, Pharmaceutical/methodsABSTRACT
Dada la necesidad de reducir los costos en los servicios de salud, cada vez cobra mayor importancia la farmacoeconomía, la cual es definida como la descripción y análisis de los costos de la terapia con medicamentos, aplicada a los sistemas de salud. La investigación en este aspecto incluye la identificación, cálculo y comparación de costos, riesgos y beneficios de programas, servicios y terapias, y la determinación de opciones que produzcan el mejor resultado de salud acorde con los recursos invertidos. En otras palabras, implica comprar a un costo adecuado, el medicamento que mejor resultado producirá en el paciente y en los servicios de salud. En el presente estudio se define la terminología derivada de esta novedosa disciplina: costo/efectividad, costo/beneficio, costo/utilidad, costo de la enfermedad, minimización de costos. Se abordan algunos aspectos que es necesario no soslayar: la magnitud del costo de una enfermedad varía dependiendo desde el punto de vista de quien efectúa el análisis económico; la falta de relación fija entre los costos médicos y lo que se cobra por ellos; la dificultad para cuantificar beneficios y costos (principalmente los primeros); la especial susceptibilidad a sesgos particulares (además de los inherentes a todo estudio clínico). También se describen 10 pasos básicos para la conducción de un análisis de farmacoeconomía