Health, priority to the worse off, and time

Priority Setting on the Path to UHC: Time for Stronger Institutions and Stronger Health Systems: Response to Recent Commentaries

Worse and worse off: the impact of lymphedema on work and career after breast cancer

PURPOSE Our study examines the impact of breast cancer-related lymphedema on women's work and career. Our research addresses a significant knowledge gap regarding the additional impact of lymphedema on breast cancer survivors. METHODS An online national survey was conducted with 361 women who either had breast cancer without lymphedema (Group 1, n = 209) or breast cancer with lymphedema (Grou...

“investigating the relationship between knowledge management and customer satisfaction considering to the e-services”

چکیده : این مطالعه تاثیر مدیریت دانش بر رضایتمندی مشتریان با توجه به خدمات الکترونیک در سازمان حمل و نقل و پایانه های استان سیستان و بلوچستان را مورد بررسی قرار می دهد. جامعه آماری این تحقیق مدیران، سرپرستان و کارشناسان مشغول به کار در سازمان حمل و نقل و پایانه های استان سیستان و بلوچستان بوده که مجموعا 94 نفر می باشند. برای تعیین حداقل نمونه از جدول مورگان استفاده شده است. که با توجه به جدول ...

A uniform time trade off method for states better and worse than dead: feasibility study of the 'lead time' approach.

The way time trade off (TTO) values are elicited for states of health considered 'worse than being dead' has important implications for the mean values used in economic evaluation. Conventional approaches to TTO, as used in the UK's 'MVH' value set, are problematic because they require fundamentally different trade-offs tasks for the valuation of states better and worse than dead. This study ai...

Priority Setting: Right Answer to a Far Too Narrow Question?; Comment on “Global Developments in Priority Setting in Health”

In their recent editorial, Baltussen and colleagues provide a concise summary of the prevailing discourse on priority-setting in health policy. Their perspective is entirely consistent with current practice, yet they unintentionally demonstrate the narrowness and moral precariousness of that discourse and practice. I respond with demonstrations of the importance of ‘interrogating scarcity’ in a...