Health week developments

Global Developments in Priority Setting in Health

Countries around the world are experiencing an ever-increasing need to make choices in investments in health and healthcare. This makes it incumbent upon them to have formal processes in place to optimize the legitimacy of eventual decisions. There is now growing experience among countries of the implementation of stakeholder participation, and a developing convergence of methods to support dec...

Health Week at Middleton

Middleton's Health Week, organised by the combined efforts of Mr. Victor C. Wilde, Chairman of the Health Committee, and Major S. T. Beggs, Medical Officer of Health, appears to have been the model of what such a week should be. The centre of the Committee's activities was the exhibition held in the Co-operative Hall-?an exhibition which should be of great practical help. There were shown, for ...

New Developments in Health Care

Developments in Mental Health Law

When an individual experiences a mental health crisis, Virginia law permits that individual to be detained up to 48-hours plus weekends and holidays for evaluation and emergency treatment under a temporary detention order (TDO). After 48-hours, authorities must hold a civil commitment hearing. The four possible hearing outcomes are dismissal of the commitment petition, mandatory outpatient trea...

global developments in priority setting in health

countries around the world are experiencing an ever-increasing need to make choices in investments in health and healthcare. this makes it incumbent upon them to have formal processes in place to optimize the legitimacy of eventual decisions. there is now growing experience among countries of the implementation of stakeholder participation, and a developing convergence of methods to support dec...