- Research areas
- Prevention and screening
Prevention and screening
The prevention and the early detection of diseases aims at reducing/ avoiding subsequent interventions. The AIHTA reports critically discuss questions on benefits and potential harms related to prevention strategies and screening interventions.
Research projects
Further Development of the Program on Preventive Health Check-Ups
Project leaders: Jule Anna Pleyer, Doris Giess
Project team: Jule Anna Pleyer, Lena Grabenhofer, Viktoria Hofer, Doris Giess, Julia Mayer-Ferbas
Part 1:
Duration: Mid-April 2025 – Mid-November 2025 (7 PM)
Language: English (with German summary)
Part 2:
Duration: May 2025 – August 2025 (2 PM)
Language: English with German summary
Social Prescribing in Primary Care: A Realist Review
Project leaders: Julia Kern
Project team: Julia Kern, Romy Schönegger
Duration: April – November 2025 (5.5 PM)
Language: English (with a detailed German summary)
Structured Medication Review for Polypharmacy
Project leaders: Reinhard Jeindl
Project team: Reinhard Jeindl, Julia Kern
Duration: April 2025 – November 2025 (4 PM)
Language: English (with German summary)
Mental health screening of adults in primary care
Project team: Julia Kern
Duration: April to November 2024
Language: English (with German summary)
Publication: HTA Project Report No. 159: https://eprints.aihta.at/1544
Strategies to reduce weight stigmatisation of people with overweight or obesity in the healthcare sector
Project leaders: Sarah Wolf
Project team: Sarah Wolf, Julia Kern
Duration: Mid-April 2024 until Mid-November 2024
Language: German (with English executive summary)
Publication: HTA Project Report No. 160: https://eprints.aihta.at/1547/
Review of strategies regarding target group accessibility, participation motivation, and adherence in prevention programmes for overweight or obese children, adolescents, and adults
Project team: Sarah Wolf
Project duration: Mid-April 2023 until Mid-November 2023
Language: German (with English executive summary)
Publication: HTA Project Report No. 155: https://eprints.aihta.at/1486/
Oral and parenteral preexposure prophylaxis (PrEP) to prevent HIV in people at risk: a systematic review of clinical effectiveness and safety with assessment of organisational, economic, patients/social, ethical and legal elements
Project authors: Mirjana Huic (Center for HTA/EBM, Croatia), Inanna Reinsperger
Duration: November 2022 – March 2023
Language: English with German summary
Publication: HTA Projektbericht No. 152: https://eprints.aihta.at/1436/
Review on perinatal and infant mental health care models and pathways (third-party funded)
Project team: Inanna Reinsperger (first author, AIHTA), Jean Paul (second author, MUI)
Duration: April 2022 – November 2022
Language: English with German summary
This review is part of the project ‘Co-designing perinatal mental health support in
Tyrol’ in which the AIHTA is a partner (host: Medical University Innsbruck)
Publication: HTA Project Report No. 148: https://eprints.aihta.at/1420/
Child and adolescent mental health care models
Project leaders: Reinhard Jeindl
Project team: Reinhard Jeindl, Viktoria Hofer
Duration: April 2022 – November 2022
Language: English with German summary
Publication: HTA Project Report No. 149: https://eprints.aihta.at/1418/
Indicators
Risk-based breast cancer screening in Austria: a systematic analysis of predictive models to assess the individual breast cancer risk, their utility and applicability in breast cancer screening programs
Project team: Sarah Wolf
Irmgard Frühwirth
Project lead: Irmgard Frühwirth
Duration: March 2022 – August 2022
Language: German
Publication: HTA Project Report No. 145: https://eprints.aihta.at/1402/
