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A rigorous review process.
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There are further efforts to ensure quality while the report is finalized that
focus on copy-editing and proofreading.
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HiTs are disseminated (hard copies, electronic publication, translations
and launches). The editor supports the authors throughout the production
process and in close consultation with the authors ensures that all stages
of the process are taken forward as effectively as possible.
The editor supports the authors throughout the production process and in
close consultation with the authors ensures that all stages of the process are
taken forward as effectively as possible.
One of the authors is also a member of the Observatory staff team and
they are responsible for supporting the other authors throughout the writing
and production process. They consult closely with each other to ensure that
all stages of the process are as effective as possible and that HiTs meet the
series standard and can support both national decision-making and comparisons
across countries.
9.4 The review process
This consists of three stages. Initially the text of the HiT is checked, reviewed
and approved by the series editors of the European Observatory. It is then
sent for review to two independent academic experts, and their comments
and amendments are incorporated into the text, and modifications are made
accordingly. The text is then submitted to the relevant ministry of health, or
appropriate authority, and policy-makers within those bodies are restricted to
checking for factual errors within the HiT.
9.5 About the authors
Jorge de Almeida Simões
(PhD) is Invited Full Professor at the Institute
of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine – NOVA University of Lisbon and at the
University of Aveiro. He has been President of the National Health Council
since 2016 and, between 2010 and 2016, was President of the Health Regulatory
Agency. Previously, he served as Advisor of the Portuguese President Jorge
Sampaio for Health-related matters (1996–2006), was the President of the
Committee for Sustainability of NHS Financing (2006–2007), was the