Public involvement in health care priority setting: an economic perspective

Public participation in health care priority setting: A scoping review.

OBJECTIVE While much literature has debated public engagement in health care decision-making, there is no consensus on when public engagement should be sought and how it should be obtained. We conducted a scoping review to examine public engagement in one specific area: priority setting and resource allocation. METHOD The review drew upon a broad range of health and non-health literature in a...

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...

Characterising Needs in Health Care Priority Setting

Priority setting in public health and health services research.

Models for strategic priority setting in public health and health services research typically lack coherence or omit key considerations. We propose a new model, the Seven 'I's, with seven components: innovation, identification, inequalities, incorporation, importance, influences, and interventions. It tests the 'relevance' of research, while 'excellence' will be evaluated using existing criteri...

Needs assessment, priority setting, and contracts for health care: an economic view.

migrant labor in South Africa. IntjHealthServ 1991;21:157-73. 7 Hunt CW. Migrant labor and sexually transmitted disease: AIDS in Africa. J Health Soc Behav 1989;30:353-73. 8 Baldo M, Cabral AJ R. Low intensity wars and social determinations of the HIV transmissions: the search for a new paradigm to guide research and control of the HIV-AIDS pandemic. In: Stein Z, Zwi A, eds. Action on AIDS tn s...