Avaliação em saúde e avaliação econômica em saúde: introdução ao debate sobre seus pontos de interseção / Health assessment and economic assessment in health: introduction to the debate on the points of intersection

O estudo pretende inferir a existência, ou não, de um continuum entre a Avaliação em Saúde e a Avaliação Econômica em Saúde ao evidenciar os pontos de interseção entre essas formas de avaliação. Para tanto se realizou uma revisão bibliográfica no que concerne à fundamentação teórica, métodos e enfoques de ambas as formas de avaliação. Tomando por base a fundamentação teórica dos modelos de avaliação em saúde, normativa e pesquisa avaliativa, como referida por Hartz et al., e as abordagens teóricas da avaliação econômica, welfarista e extrawelfarista, referidas por Brouwer et al., concluiu-se que há um continuum, entre o modelo da pesquisa avaliativa, adotada na avaliação em saúde, e a abordagem teórica extrawelfarista da avaliação econômica em saúde e entre a abordagem normativa da avaliação em saúde e o enfoque welfarista da avaliação econômica em saúde. No que tange, entretanto, à prática avaliativa no dia a dia das instituições, os estudos realizados, em geral, ainda são concebidos sob um enfoque normativo e sob uma abordagem welfarista.

The study aims to infer the existence of a continuum between Health Assessment and Economic Assessment in Health, by highlighting points of intersection of these forms of appraisal. To achieve this, a review of the theoretical foundations, methods and approaches of both forms of assessment was conducted. It was based on the theoretical model of health evaluation as reported by Hartz et al and economic assessment in health approaches reported by Brouwer et al. It was seen that there is a continuum between the theoretical model of evaluative research and the extrawelfarist approach for economic assessment in health, and between the normative theoretical model for health assessment and the welfarist approaches for economic assessment in health. However, in practice the assessment is still conducted using the normative theoretical model and with a welfarist approach.

Associations between normative and self-perceived orthodontic treatment needs in young-adult dental patients / 대한치과교정학회지

OBJECTIVE: Our aim was to determine the correlation between dental treatment need as assessed by the components of the index of orthodontic treatment need (IOTN) and a self-evaluation questionnaire in a population selected from the dental clinics of Shiraz, Iran. METHODS: The dental treatment needs of 240 participants (120 men and 120 women) were measured on the basis of the IOTN dental health component (IOTN-DHC), IOTN aesthetic component (IOTN-AC), IOTN AC determined by the examiner (IOTN-ACE), and a self-evaluation questionnaire (SEQ). The correlations between the treatment needs assessed by all the methods as well as the correlations of the treatment needs with age and gender were assessed using a Spearman's correlation coefficient (alpha = 0.01). RESULTS: All methods were significantly correlated (p 0.06). CONCLUSIONS: The correlations between the self-evaluation and the IOTN components in young adults were close to those reported in children, and IOTN-ACE was more reliable than IOTN-AC.