Priority-setting for healthcare: Who, how, and is it fair?

Health Policy

Volumn 84, Issue 2-3, 2007, Pages 220-233

  Menon, Devidas ^a   Stafinski, Tania ^a   Martin, Douglas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b at the University of Toronto Wagner is also a faculty member of the Canadian Medical Associations' Physician Management Institute   (Canada)

Author keywords

Accountability for reasonableness; Health care delivery; Health care priority setting; Health services organizations; Public involvement

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANADA; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH SERVICE;

ALBERTA; DECISION MAKING; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE RATIONING; HEALTH PRIORITIES; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; NATIONAL HEALTH PROGRAMS; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY;

EID: 35448999612     PISSN: 01688510     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.healthpol.2007.05.009     Document Type: Article

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