Ecuador
Upper middle income country
Population in 2015
WHO region
16.14
America
million
people
Total Health Expenditure per capita in 2013 US dollar
h
$431 per
person
Health Technology Assessment (HTA) system
Purpose
Purposes of HTA
Governance
G
National HTA
organization
Clinical practice guidelines and protocols,
Planning and budgeting, Pricing of health
products
Coordinación General de Desarrollo Estratégico en Salud Dirección Nacional de Inteligencia de la Salud
Legislative requirement
No requirement to consider results of HTA
G
How HTA is used in
decision-making
Advisory, decision makers rely partly on the
advice
Process transparency
Guidelines for preparing
HTA
Publicly available
V
.
Are the conclusions of HTA
reports publicly available?
Yes
Conflict of interest
declaration
Declared for those involved in preparing HTA reports
_
Public communication
Do the policy outcomes based on
HTA reports become publicly
available?
Yes
Civil society participation
Unsure
Data sources
1. 2 0 15 Glo b al Survey o n Health Techno lo g y As s es s ment b y Natio nal Autho rities
(Aug us t 2 0 15)
2 . Wo rld Bank's clas s ificatio n o f the wo rld 's eco no mies (J uly 2 0 15)
3 . United Natio ns - Dep artment o f Eco no mics and So cial Affairs - Wo rld Po p ulatio n
Pro s p ects (1 J uly 2 0 15)
4 . Wo rld Health Org anizatio n Glo b al Health Ob s ervato ry d ata rep o s ito ry - Health
exp end iture p er cap ita (2 0 13 )
0
