Disinvestment

⁴Elshaug AG, Hiller JE, Tunis SR, Moss JR. Challenges in Australian policy processes for disinvestment from existing, ineffective health care practices. Australia and New Zealand Health Policy 2007;4(1). ⁵Technology Assessment in Health Care, 28:3 (2012), 201–202.

The deliberate and systematic reduction of funding for a health technology of questionable or comparatively low value.

Note: The funding is often government funding, i.e. subsidisation of the costs of health care.

Reference

http://htaglossary.net/disinvestment