Setting Health-Care Priorities: A Reply to Tännsjö

Priorities in health care: reply to Lewis and Charny.

This paper is a reply to proposals to base priority health-care decisions on public opinion surveys. Whilst it is recognised that current practice is less than satisfactory, it is argued here that basing health-care priorities on societal attitudes in this way is not a solution and does not provide a satisfactory basis for bringing democracy to the health service.

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...

Setting priorities in health

Acknowledgements We would like to thank the Nuffield Trust for giving us the opportunity to undertake this research work, with particular thanks to the Efficiency research programme steering group for their expert advice and guidance, and the reviewers for their very helpful and detailed comments. We would also like to thank those who helped develop and pilot the electronic survey. Finally, we ...

Tensions in setting health care priorities for South Africa's children.

The new South African constitution commits the government to guarantee "basic health services" for every child under 18. Primary health care for pregnant women and children under six and elements of essential primary health care have received priority. At present, there is little analysis of the moral considerations involved in making choices about more advanced or costly health care which may,...