INAHTA White Paper on Advancing Environmental Sustainability Through HTA

This White Paper aims to advance the discussion of the potential readiness and role for health technology assessment agencies to integrate environmental impact assessment into their evaluations. This topic is timely and urgent given the evolving global environmental and climate crisis. Health care systems and organizations are responding by taking on greater responsibility to reduce their environmental footprint.  INAHTA shares this knowledge for all stakeholders in the health technology assessment community as inspiration to work together to reduce the environmental footprint of healthcare and support health systems to deliver high-quality, cost-effective, and environmentally sustainable care.

This White Paper aims to advance the discussion of the potential readiness and role for health technology assessment agencies to integrate environmental impact assessment into their evaluations. This topic is timely and urgent given the evolving global environmental and climate crisis. Health care systems and organizations are responding by taking on greater responsibility to reduce their environmental footprint.  INAHTA shares this knowledge for all stakeholders in the health technology assessment community as inspiration to work together to reduce the environmental footprint of healthcare and support health systems to deliver high-quality, cost-effective, and environmentally sustainable care.