Public participation in decision making: A three-step procedure

Public Participation in Geocomputation to Support Spatial Decision-making

The extent to which computational modelling has influenced and been a part of decision-making in geography and urban planning has a long and distinguished history, as outlined by Geertman and Stillwell (2009) and Batty and Brail (2008) amongst others. With more recent advances in visualisation techniques and the ability of computers to manipulate, process and analyse increasingly complex and gr...

Assessing Patient Participation in Health Policy Decision-Making in Cyprus

Although the importance of patient participation in the design and evaluation of health programs and services is well-documented, there is scarcity of research with regard to patient association (PA) participation in health policy decision-making processes. To this end, the present study aimed to validate further a previously developed instrument as well as to investigate the degree of PA parti...

The Use Of ICT In Public Decision-Making Participation

This paper investigates social representations in processes of public decision-making participation where information and communication technologies (ICT) have played a role. The City Hall of Belo Horizonte, a Brazilian municipality, decided to use web-based technologies for the first time in 2006, creating a project called digital participative budget (DPB), whose purpose was to allow citizens...

DeltaM - a Decision Support System for the Public Participation in Decision Making in Spatial Planning

Patient participation in decision-making.

We review the research both for and against patient participation in decision-making and conclude that (a) patients want to be informed of treatment alternatives, (b) they, in general, want to be involved in treatment decisions when more than one treatment alternative exists, and (c) the benefits of participation have not yet been clearly demonstrated in research studies. However, studies that ...