title: Technology assessment. Old, new, and needs-based.
abstract: Recent health reports, including the 1993 World Development Report, have emphasized the importance of integrating the needs of the population into technology assessment. This paper reviews previous approaches to technology assessment and identifies the missing link between technology and its impact on the physical, emotional, and social needs of the community, namely needs-based technology assessment. It stresses the key role played by issues of equity and community values in making technology decisions. A number of models for needs-based technology assessment are described.
authors.affiliation: University of Ottawa.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Tugwell
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Sitthi-Amorn
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: O'Connor
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Hatcher-Roberts
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Bergevin
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Wolfson
mesh_terms: D018672:Community Health Planning; D017281:Cost of Illness; D003362:Cost-Benefit Analysis; D003659:Decision Making, Organizational; D014943:Global Health; D006291:Health Policy; D006301:Health Services Needs and Demand; D006801:Humans; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D009936:Organizational Innovation; D009937:Organizational Objectives; D012935:Social Justice; D013673:Technology Assessment, Biomedical / Q000379:methods*; D014481:United States