Information about the ability to have an impact
The goal is to benefit people
- Healthcare and social welfare services have an impact when they genuinely improve people’s quality of life and inclusion.
- Prioritisation is possible when there is access to reliable, measured and comparable information on which treatments and services will improve people’s quality of life the most.
- The aim is to create ethically sustainable healthcare and social welfare services: to curb the increase in costs and to level out differences in health and wellbeing.
- With the help of impact data, it is possible to determine how the growing need for services and ever scarcer resources and the demand and supply can be reconciled.
What does ‘impact’ mean?
‘Impact’ means the change caused by the use of a service, treatment, medication or other intervention.
An impact is a positive change in functional capacity, state of health or welfare brought about by a treatment, service, medication or other intervention.
Cost-effectiveness is the ratio of the impact achieved to the resources used.