Improving equitable health outcomes and added value for and with cancer patients through health-economics research, health systems research and outcomes research

Expected Outcome:Proposals under this topic should aim to deliver results that are directed and tailored towards, and contribute to all of the following expected outcomes:People at risk of cancer, cancer patients and their caregivers/families benefit from access to more effective and cost-effective, national or regional, cancer control programmes across EU Member States and Associated Countries.Researchers, physicians, innovators[1], SMEs and other professionals from different disciplines and sectors have access to national, regional or local data on healthcare spending (such as expenditures, resource allocations, organisation and type of healthcare interventions, and for which cancer indications, infrastructure, medical prescriptions, drug pricing, drug sales, reimbursement data from health insurers, population-based cancer registries or other cancer-centred registry data, longitudinal epidemiology data) for research and commercial purposes.National or regional healthcare systems, healthcare providers, policymakers and authorities in European regions, EU Member States and Associated Countries have the evidence to improve equitable health outcomes of cancer patients by addressing direct and indirect costs, delivering value-driven cancer care and tackling organisational challenges of a rapidly-changing, dynamic cancer control[2] landscape. Scope:Proposals should address all of the following:Establish, validate or further refine health-economics research, health systems research, epidemiological or outcomes research methods, models, or modelling to perform (comparative) cost-effectiveness and epidemiological analyses benefiting equitable health outcomes of and added value for people at risk of cancer as well as cancer patients living with and beyond their disease.Take into account socio-economic inequalities, socio-demographic, organisational, innovative or cultural trends, socio-cultural or behavioural change (for example in the case of primary prevention or precisio