Public Engagement in Health Priority Setting in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Current Trends and Considerations for Policy

نویسندگان

  • Katarzyna Bolsewicz Alderman
  • David Hipgrave
  • Eliana Jimenez-Soto
چکیده

Democratization, rising literacy, the advent of the information age, and increasing connectedness are resulting in unprecedented opportunities for public participation in public affairs. In addition to promoting transparency and demonstrating inclusiveness, public consultation enhances ownership and resonates with the increasingly common decentralization of responsibility for social services to local authorities [1–5]. In the last decade, the World Bank alone spent almost $85 billion on local participatory development initiatives [6]. Examples of institutionalized public engagement in public sector activities in lowand middle-income countries (LMICs) include social audits to produce community-validated data for planning [7] and citizens’ report and score cards to channel public feedback on the performance of public services [8,9]. Such exercises can also be used to inform local budgeting and resource allocation [10,11]. Even the campaign on post-2015 global development priorities [12] has proposed broad consultation involving the poor and the vulnerable, and recent commentaries on health sector regulation have called for broad public participation [13].

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دوره 10  شماره 

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تاریخ انتشار 2013