Table of contents - Special Issue: Social values and healthcare priority‐setting
Guest Editors: Peter Littlejohns, Albert Weale, Kalipso Chalkidou, Yot Teerwattananon, Ruth Faden
Social values and health policy: a new international research programme
Peter Littlejohns, Albert Weale, Kalipso Chalkidou, Ruth Faden, Yot TeerawattananonThis 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…
Social values in health priority setting: a conceptual framework
Sarah Clark, Albert WealeIt is commonly recognized that the setting of health priorities requires value judgements and that these judgements are social. Justifying social value judgements is an important…
Social value judgments in healthcare: a philosophical critique
Laura Biron, Benedict Rumbold, Ruth FadenThe purpose of this paper is to consider some of the philosophical and bioethical issues raised by the creation of the draft social values framework developed to facilitate data…
Efficiency or equity: value judgments in coverage decisions in Thailand
Sripen Tantivess, Román Pérez Velasco, Jomkwan Yothasamut, Adun Mohara, Hatai Limprayoonyong, Yot TeerawattananonThe purpose of this paper is to analyse the roles of social values in the reform of coverage decisions for Thailand's Universal Health Coverage (UC) plan in 2009 and 2010.
Social values and healthcare priority setting in Korea
Jeonghoon Ahn, Gaeun Kim, Hae Sun Suh, Sang Moo LeeThe purpose of this paper is to present the role of social values in setting healthcare priorities in Korea.
Social values and health priority setting in China
Mary Docherty, Qi Cao, Hufeng WangThe purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of the organisational and procedural arrangements for healthcare reform in China, and describe the role of social values in the…
Social values and health priority setting in England: “values” based decision making
Peter Littlejohns, Tarang Sharma, Kim JeongThe purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of the organisational and procedural arrangements for priority setting in England and Wales. It describes the role of social…
Social values and health priority setting in Germany
Katharina KieslichThe purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of health priority setting structures in Germany. It reflects on how and which social values may influence decision making, and…
Consideration of social values in the establishment of accountable care organizations in the USA
Ron Keren, Peter LittlejohnsThe purpose of this paper is to introduce the new US health organizations called accountable care organizations (ACOs) which are expected to improve the quality and reduce the…
Universal health coverage and litigation in Latin America
Leonardo Cubillos, Maria‐Luisa Escobar, Sebastian Pavlovic, Roberto IunesOver the last five years many middle‐income Latin American countries have seen a steep increase in the number of cases litigating access to curative services. The purpose of this…
A proposal for a new social values research program and policy network
Peter Littlejohns, Kai Yeung, Sarah Clark, Albert WealeThe purpose of this paper is to demonstrate that the social values framework developed by Clark and Weale could be applied to publicly available data and to explore the…
