Health Decision Analysis: Evolution, Trends, and Emerging Topics

Elisa F. Long (), Gilberto Montibeller () and Jun Zhuang ()
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Elisa F. Long: Anderson School of Management, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90272
Gilberto Montibeller: School of Business and Economics, Loughborough University, Loughborough LE11 3TU, United Kingdom; Center for Risk and Economic Analysis of Threats and Emergencies (CREATE), University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90015
Jun Zhuang: Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York 14260

Decision Analysis, 2022, vol. 19, issue 4, 255-264

Abstract: Health remains one of the most challenging realms for decision makers and policy making while critical for the well-being of humans, the stability of societies, and the development of economies. Decision making in this field ranges from medical doctors identifying the best treatments for patients, healthcare companies selecting the most promising drugs for development, healthcare providers deciding for adequate levels of resourcing, health regulators deciding whether to approve a new medicine or health technology, to regional and national health departments identifying how to increase the health security of regions and countries. In this positioning paper, and introduction to this Special Issue, we present the history, evolution, and trends of health decision analysis and suggest that these developments and news trends can be conceptualized as an emerging field of applied research for our discipline: Health Decision Analysis.

Keywords: decision analysis; healthcare; analytics; health security; medical decision-making (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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