TY - JOUR
T1 - Social values and health policy
T2 - A new international research programme
AU - Littlejohns, Peter
AU - Weale, Albert
AU - Chalkidou, Kalipso
AU - Teerwattananon, Yot
AU - Faden, Ruth
AU - Littlejohns, Peter
AU - Weale, Albert
AU - Chalkidou, Kalipso
AU - Faden, Ruth
AU - Teerawattananon, Yot
PY - 2012/6/15
Y1 - 2012/6/15
N2 - This editorial aims to outline the context of healthcare priority-setting, and summarise each of the other ten papers in this special edition. It introduces a new multidisciplinary research programme drawing on ethics, philosophy, health economics, political science and health technology assessment, out of which the papers in this edition have arisen. Key normative concepts are introduced and policy and research context provided to frame subsequent papers in the edition. Common challenges of health priority-setting are faced by many countries across the world, and a range of social value judgments is in play as resource allocation decisions are made. Although the challenges faced by different countries are in many ways similar, the way in which social values affect the processes and content of priority-setting decisions means that those challenges are resolved very differently in a variety of social, political, cultural and institutional settings, as subsequent papers in this edition demonstrate. How social values affect decision making in this way is the subject of a new multi-disciplinary research programme. Technical analyses of health priority setting are commonplace, but approaching the issues from the perspective of social values and conducting comparative analyses across countries with very different cultural, social and institutional contexts provides the content for a new research agenda.
AB - This editorial aims to outline the context of healthcare priority-setting, and summarise each of the other ten papers in this special edition. It introduces a new multidisciplinary research programme drawing on ethics, philosophy, health economics, political science and health technology assessment, out of which the papers in this edition have arisen. Key normative concepts are introduced and policy and research context provided to frame subsequent papers in the edition. Common challenges of health priority-setting are faced by many countries across the world, and a range of social value judgments is in play as resource allocation decisions are made. Although the challenges faced by different countries are in many ways similar, the way in which social values affect the processes and content of priority-setting decisions means that those challenges are resolved very differently in a variety of social, political, cultural and institutional settings, as subsequent papers in this edition demonstrate. How social values affect decision making in this way is the subject of a new multi-disciplinary research programme. Technical analyses of health priority setting are commonplace, but approaching the issues from the perspective of social values and conducting comparative analyses across countries with very different cultural, social and institutional contexts provides the content for a new research agenda.
KW - Decision making
KW - Health organisation and management
KW - Health priority setting
KW - International comparisons
KW - Multi-disciplinary research
KW - Resource allocation
KW - Social values
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U2 - 10.1108/14777261211238945
DO - 10.1108/14777261211238945
M3 - Review article
C2 - 22852452
AN - SCOPUS:84861321900
SN - 1477-7266
VL - 26
SP - 285
EP - 292
JO - Journal of Health Organization and Management
JF - Journal of Health Organization and Management
IS - 3
ER -