PubMed · 10243031
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D I Bentham. 1977. Consumer advisory groups--Part 2.. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10243031/
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OBJECTIVE: To compare the extent to which women in three European countries were able to exert influence over the organization and delivery of maternity policy and the factors likely to determine their success. DESIGN: Semi-structured interviews used to collect data, which was analysed in a framework that emphasized the importance of contextual environment. SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS: Representatives of 19 lay maternity user organizations in England, the Netherlands and Germany interviewed during 1996 and 1997. VARIABLES STUDIED: Each interviewee was asked to provide details of their aims and objectives, activities and networks and perception of success. Four areas of contextual environment were used to account for variations. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURE: Self-reported accounts of success in influencing policy agenda, credibility with opinion formers, campaigning activities and political networking were compared between and across countries. RESULTS: Marked differences between both the aspirations and the achievements of groups in the three countries. CONCLUSIONS: Understanding the differences between countries in relation to user involvement entails locating research within the social, political and cultural context of health-care, consumerism and citizen participation.
In April 1962, Consumers' Association published the first issue of a British edition of the American Medical Letter on Drugs and Therapeutics. A year later, formal ties with the parent journal were severed, the title was changed, and Drug and Therapeutics Bulletin (DTB) was launched. Initially, articles in DTB were brief (each around 500 words), references few (rarely more than five) and the circulation around 5,000. Gradually, articles and reference lists have lengthened, and our circulation has grown to 130,000 (a figure bolstered by bulk purchasing agreements with Departments of Health, or their equivalents, in the UK and Eire).