Social values and health policy: a new international research programme

• Published in: Journal of health organization and management Vol. 26; no. 3; pp. 285 - 292
• Main Authors: Littlejohns, Peter, Weale, Albert, Chalkidou, Kalipso, Faden, Ruth, Teerawattananon, Yot
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England Emerald Group Publishing Limited 15.06.2012
• Subjects: Accountability; Culture; Decision making; Ethics; Health; Health care policy; Health Policy; Health services; Humans; Internationality; Medical research; Medical technology; Population; Prioritizing; R&D; Research & development; Research - trends; Social Values; Studies; Transparency; Values; International comparisons; Decision making; Resource allocation; Health priority setting; Multi-disciplinary research; Social values; Health organisation and management

Purpose - 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 a...