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Health Technology Assessments and the Right to Health

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When the cost of medicines place them beyond reach for the patients who need them, rationing or priority-setting is often treated as the only way forward. But is this assumption always justified? T...
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  • 15 October 2026
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When the cost of medicines place them beyond reach for the patients who need them, rationing or priority-setting is often treated as the only way forward. But is this assumption always justified? This book looks closely at Health Technology Assessment (HTA), a quiet multidisciplinary decision-making engine of healthcare systems, and asks whether the international right to health can do more than simply legitimise scarcity through a fair procedure. Drawing on international law, original doctrinal analysis, and a detailed case study, it shows how HTA resource allocation is inseparable from resource mobilisation. This book argues that States are legally obliged not only to prioritise fairly through an accountable process, but also to intervene in prices and market dynamics, and that integrating pricing and regulatory measures can transform HTA into a tool for substantive equality, market accountability, and genuine efforts for access to health.
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Price: $163.00
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill | Nijhoff
Series: Global Health, Human Rights and Social Justice
Publication Date: 15 October 2026
ISBN: 9789004730304
Format: Hardcover
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Luciano Bottini Filho, PhD (Bristol) LLM (Nottingham), is a Senior Lecturer in Human Rights at the Helena Kennedy Centre for International Justice, Sheffield Hallam University. He has published on global health law and governance, the right to health, and the political economy of access to medicines.