Context and setting both refer to the place and time from which the evidence for the HTA report has come and/or in which the HTA report will be used. Time and place are both important dimensions of context/setting, as are level (national, regional, local), the kind of decision being made.
‘Setting’ in particular is commonly used in HTA to refer narrowly to an organizational dimension of health care, such as primary, secondary or tertiary care, or community care.