Ecuador Upper middle income country Population in 2015 WHO region 16.14 America million people Total Health Expenditure per capita in 2013 US dollar h $431 per person Health Technology Assessment (HTA) system Purpose Purposes of HTA Governance G National HTA organization Clinical practice guidelines and protocols, Planning and budgeting, Pricing of health products Coordinación General de Desarrollo Estratégico en Salud Dirección Nacional de Inteligencia de la Salud Legislative requirement No requirement to consider results of HTA G How HTA is used in decision-making Advisory, decision makers rely partly on the advice Process transparency Guidelines for preparing HTA Publicly available V . Are the conclusions of HTA reports publicly available? Yes Conflict of interest declaration Declared for those involved in preparing HTA reports _ Public communication Do the policy outcomes based on HTA reports become publicly available? Yes Civil society participation Unsure Data sources 1. 2 0 15 Glo b al Survey o n Health Techno lo g y As s es s ment b y Natio nal Autho rities (Aug us t 2 0 15) 2 . Wo rld Bank's clas s ificatio n o f the wo rld 's eco no mies (J uly 2 0 15) 3 . United Natio ns - Dep artment o f Eco no mics and So cial Affairs - Wo rld Po p ulatio n Pro s p ects (1 J uly 2 0 15) 4 . Wo rld Health Org anizatio n Glo b al Health Ob s ervato ry d ata rep o s ito ry - Health exp end iture p er cap ita (2 0 13 )