A common thread weaving through the current public participation debate is the need for
new approaches that emphasize two-way interaction between decision makers and the …

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 …

There are a number of impulses towards public participation in health care decision making
including instrumentalist, communitarian, educative and expressive impulses and the desire …

Those making health care coverage decisions rely on health technology assessment (HTA)
for crucial technical information. But coverage decision-making, and the HTA that informs it …

BACKGROUND: It is widely assumed that the principal objective of healthcare is to
maximise health. However, people may be willing to sacrifice aggregate health gain in order …

How to involve the public in setting health and health care priorities is a constant challenge
for health system decisions. Policy maker interest in involving the public in increasingly …

For over two decades, the “deliberative turn” has rooted itself in the fields of health policy
and bioethics, producing a growing body of deliberation in action and associated academic …

Over the last decade support for increasing public participation in decisions regarding the
planning and delivery of health services has become a familiar feature of the policy agenda …

PROLOGUE: Canada's health insurance system, the nation's most popular publicly financed
service, has for years demonstrated a capacity to deliver universal, high-quality medical care …

Universal healthcare is constrained by national governments' finite health resources. This
gives rise to complex priority-setting dilemmas. In several universal healthcare systems, the …