PALLIATIVE CARE, PUBLIC HEALTH AND JUSTICE: SETTING PRIORITIES IN RESOURCE POOR COUNTRIES

Paediatric Palliative Care in Resource-Poor Countries

There is a great need for paediatric palliative care (PPC) services globally, but access to services is lacking in many parts of the world, particularly in resource-poor settings. Globally it is estimated that 21.6 million children need access to palliative care, with 8.2 needing specialist services. PC has been identified as important within the global health agenda e.g., within universal heal...

Setting health care priorities in Oregon.

Setting health care priorities in Pakistan.

OBJECTIVE To describe a health priority setting exercise in Pakistan and its relevance to traditional medical care and care providers. METHODS Literature search of local and regional data was performed to identify priority health problems, those with high disease burden and with cost-effective interventions. RESULTS Major causes of ill-health were communicable (diarrhoea, respiratory infect...

Collective Intelligence in Public Health Policy Making: Crowdsourcing Health Care Priorities Setting

Since the early academic studies that effectively used general-purpose crowdsourcing platforms for advancing scientific research (e.g. Kittur et al. 2008; Villarroel 2008), an array of scientific experiments in various academic fields of inquiry have been conducted (e.g. Paolacci et al 2010; Wiggins & Crowston 2011; Shapiro, Chandler & Mueller 2013). The fields of application continue to expand...

Rawlsian Justice and Palliative Care.

Palliative care serves both as an integrated part of treatment and as a last effort to care for those we cannot cure. The extent to which palliative care should be provided and our reasons for doing so have been curiously overlooked in the debate about distributive justice in health and healthcare. We argue that one prominent approach, the Rawlsian approach developed by Norman Daniels, is unabl...