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PubMed2005

On the relevance of personal characteristics in setting health priorities: a comment on Olsen, Richardson, Dolan and Menzel (2003).

This paper revisits a number of findings in empirical ethics and public choice to consider the sort of preferences that arise when individuals engage in priority setting. Specifically, the normative authority of votes and ranks is questioned because very little of any consequence hangs on the decision to vote one way rather than another. An individual may be in the possession of well-held views as to the form of the social welfare function but express voting preferences based on entirely different objectives. The relevance (moral or otherwise) of personal characteristics when setting health care priorities is therefore reconsidered, taking appropriate account of incentive structures and the nature of voting preferences.

Cost-Benefit Analysis↗
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[Health priorities: problems to resolve and new challenges].

In the last 25 years we have witnessed revolutionary changes in the field of health, particularly in the low and middle income countries. This paper discusses some of the new problems which need to be solved and some of the challenges which lie ahead. Among the former we can mention the financing of health care services and the provision of health care to an aging population. Among the latter we include the need for improvement of the quality of health services and the training of appropriate health manpower.

Health Priorities↗
PubMed1987

[Public health priorities in Reunion in 1986].

French Overseas Departments affords, with their sanitation, a range of transition situations between industrialized and developing countries. Reunion Island, in spite of quite comparable health indicators with European countries, keep specificities in according with his mentality and economic predicament, involving other sanitary priorities. Is it possible to omit to have a real Prevention Policy?

Health Planning↗
PubMed1992

Reproductive failure as a health priority in the Third World: a review.

Family planning is synonymous with contraception in most third world countries, even though--in a great number of these countries--infertility, foetal death and child loss together constitute an important public health problem resulting in a high prevalence of childlessness. In underdeveloped countries much less attention has been paid to reproductive failures than in contraceptive failure and a highly biased approach towards "population control" has dominated. It is argued that childlessness represents a neglected aspect of family planning and that narrow-minded and goal-oriented population control is likely to be unsuccessful if it does not take into account all determinants of human reproductive failure.

Attitude to Health↗
PubMed2006

[Health priorities in Brazil in the 1990s: three policies, many lessons].

This paper, which focuses on the Brazilian Ministry of Health's agenda as the national health authority between 1990 and 2002, identifies and analyzes Ministry priorities. Three main policies were identified for the period: decentralization, establishment of a family health program, and the policy to combat AIDS. In general, the initial design of these policies was consistent with the guidelines of the Brazilian public health system (SUS). However, discrepancies were found between the universalistic agenda of the Brazilian health reform carried out in the 1980s and the hegemonic agenda of state reform that prevailed in the country in the 1990s, which had liberal roots and did not favor the expansion of government actions and comprehensive social policies. Within this unfavorable political and economic context, the development of specific health policies prioritized by the Brazilian Ministry of Health revealed unsolved problems and gaps in the public health system and limitations in the Ministry's ability to exercise its role as national health authority.

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PubMed2001

Arthritis and rheumatism are neglected health priorities: a bibliometric study.

OBJECTIVE: To investigate the frequency of publications about arthritis and rheumatic diseases relative to other diseases and to examine which topics received most attention. METHODS: Available health statistics were used to quantify the burden of illness due to musculoskeletal (MSK) conditions. Next, a bibliographic analysis of MEDLINE was performed comparing disease categories using the MeSH tree structure for 1991 and 1996. Diseases were ranked according to the frequency of citations attributable to them and further analyses were performed for journal categories, MeSH subheadings, and the frequency of citations for specific types of arthritis and rheumatic diseases. RESULTS: Compared with 9 other causes, MSK diseases are leading contributors to health professional consultations, total health costs, chronic ill health, and disability. In contrast, MSK diseases ranked ninth among twelve major MEDLINE disease categories in 1996 and 1991. These rankings were similarly low across journal categories reflecting basic science research and clinical application. Radiography, rehabilitation, history and embryology were the most frequently used subheadings for MSK diseases. In 1996, there were 16,603 citations for MSK diseases, led by bone diseases (7,304 citations), joint diseases (4,987), muscular diseases (4,236), arthritis (3,555), and rheumatic diseases (3195). Among arthritic and rheumatic diseases, rheumatoid arthritis had the largest number of citations (2,004), followed by systemic lupus erythematosus (927) and osteoarthritis (793). CONCLUSION: Arthritis and rheumatic diseases receive far less attention in the scientific literature than is warranted by their enormous and growing disease burden. Both research and dissemination are lacking and more adequate resources for these activities are indicated.

Arthritis↗