Disinvestment

Displacement of non-cost-effective technologies for resource re-investment/re-allocation

AHTA is building capacity in the burgeoning area known as disinvestment. This involves the development and application of epidemiological, economic, ethical and policy appraisals of existing health care interventions that are cost-ineffective or inappropriately applied within health care.

Displacement of these practices will make way for resource re-allocation towards practices and programs offering greater benefit. Research has currently focused on developments in the methodological and policy application areas related to disinvestment.

ASTUTE Health Study

Assessing Service and Technology Use To Enhance Health

A multi-disciplinary team from AHTA has been awarded a Project Grant by Australia's National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) to carry out a three year disinvestment project that commenced in January 2009.

The Assessing Service and Technology Use To Enhance Health (ASTUTE Health) study aims to design, implement and evaluate a model to identify the social, ethical, political, economic and epidemiological factors that perpetuate the use of ineffective health care practices, and to test if practices can be disinvested.

This model will be applied to two case studies for which there is evidence of questionable effectiveness (to be announced). Throughout this process we will partner with policy, clinical, consumer and community stakeholders to assess whether these practices ought to be disinvested, to what degree and how.

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Background

Investigators and Research Personnel