1. Our studies of HTA, medical technology diffusion and transfer have been conducted during the last three years in Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Thailand, Micronesia, Pakistan, India and, to a lesser extent, Taiwan, Sri Lanka and Nepal. See Cyril Roseman, “Potential for Marketing Medical Technology in South East Asia, ” to be published in the International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care, Volume 6, Number 1. Field studies and unpublished reports have been filed on countries of South Asia. See also an unpublished report on “Improving Medical Imaging in Micronesia” by John Livoni, M.D., November 1987. Earlier work in Australia and New Zealand during 1985 has recently been updated and will appear shortly in David Hailey and Cyril Roseman, “Health Care Technology in Australia and New Zealand: Contrasts and Cooperation, ” Health Policy, in press.
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2. Ernest O Attinger. and Ronney B. Panerai, “Transferability of Health Technology Assessment with Particular Emphasis on Developing Countries, ”International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care, Volume 4, Number 4(1988), 545–554; Ronney B. Panerai and Jorge Pena Mohr, Health Technology Assessment Methodologies for Developing Countries. Washington, D.C.: Pan American Health Organization, 1989.
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3. Op. cit., 546-7.
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4. See Panerai and Mohr, op. cit. Chapter 4, 33-90.
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5. Op. cit.
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6. See PAHO, Series of Publications on Health Technology Development, 1983-6.
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7. Attinger and Panerai, op. cit, 548.
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8. Loc. cit.
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9. There have been many published studies of health technology evaluation In Latin America; in a review of five years, 1978-82, Guillermo Llanos identified 1, 474 pubished and indexed articles, over 1000 from Brazil and Mexico alone. Cited in Panerai and Mohr, op. cit. 91-3.
