International Journal of Health Policy and Management

International Journal of Health Policy and Management

Should Priority Setting Also Be Concerned About Profound Socio-Economic Transformations? A Response to Recent Commentary

Document Type : Correspondence

Authors
Brayan V. Seixas 1
Craig Mitton 1
Marion Danis 2
Iestyn Williams 3
Marthe Gold 4, 5
Rob Baltussen 6
1 School of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
2 National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
3 University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
4 New York Academy of Medicine, New York City, NY, USA
5 City College, New York City, NY, USA
6 Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
10.15171/ijhpm.2017.85
Keywords
Priority Setting
Legitimacy Stakeholder
Participation
Subjects

In his comment1 on the editorial “Global Developments in Priority-Setting in Health” authored by Baltussen et al,2 Dr. Ted Schrecker provides a useful summary of the main reasons underlying the current degree of scarcity in healthcare systems worldwide... (Read more...)

  1. Schrecker T. Priority setting: right answer to a far too narrow question? Comment on: “Global developments in priority setting in health.” Int J Health Policy Manag. 2017; Forthcoming. doi:10.15171/ijhpm.2017.66.
  2. Baltussen R, Mitton C, Danis M, Williams I, Gold M. Global developments in priority setting in health. Int J Health Policy Manag. 2017;6(3):127-128. doi:10.15171/ijhpm.2017.10
  3. Stuckler DB. The Body Economic. Toronto: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd; 2013:240.
  4. Schrecker T, Bambra C. How Politics Makes Us Sick: Neoliberal Epidemics. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan; 2015:167.
  5. Kuhn TS. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. 3rd ed. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press; 1996:226.
  6. Gerry CJ, Mickiewicz TM, Nikoloski Z. Did mass privatisation really increase post-communist mortality? Lancet. 2010;375(9712):371.
International Journal of Health Policy and Management
Volume 6, Issue 12
2017
Pages 733-734

  • Received Date 01 July 2017
  • Revised Date 17 July 2017
  • Accepted Date 11 July 2017
  • First Published Date 01 December 2017
  • Published Date 01 December 2017