Health Policy and Medical Decision Making in Hong Kong

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Health Policy and Medical Decision Making in Hong
Kong

• Gabriel M Leung
• Department of Community Medicine,
• Medical and Health Research Network
• University of Hong Kong
• Towards an evidence-based research agenda
• February 19, 2002

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Philosophy Ethics
Epidemiology
Statistics
Macro-economics
Micro-economics
Evidence-Based, Data-Driven Health Policy
Formulation
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Health care financing

• Macroeconomics and Epidemiology
• Assessment framework
• Need and demand assessment
• Availability of resources

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Medical decision making (CEA)

• Microeconomics and Statistics
• Cost-effectiveness of cancer screening
• Cervical and breast
• Clinical practice guidelines
• Empirical data vs simulation
• Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC)