The Challenge of Measuring Community Values in Ways Appropriate for Setting Health Care Priorities

, The move from a notion that community values ought to play a role in health care decision making to the creation of health care policies that in some way reflect such values is a challenging one. No single method will adequately measure community values in a way appropriate for setting health care...

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Main Author: Ubel, Peter A (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press 1999
In: Kennedy Institute of Ethics journal
Year: 1999, Volume: 9, Issue: 3, Pages: 263-284
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Summary:, The move from a notion that community values ought to play a role in health care decision making to the creation of health care policies that in some way reflect such values is a challenging one. No single method will adequately measure community values in a way appropriate for setting health care priorities. Consequently, multiple methods to measure community values should be employed, thereby allowing the strengths and weaknesses of the various methods to complement each other. A preliminary research agenda to bring together empirical research on community values with more traditional research on health care ethics is outlined, with the goal of identifying and measuring acceptable community values that are relatively consistent across measurement methods and, ultimately, developing ways to incorporate these values into health care priority decision making.
ISSN:1086-3249
Contains:Enthalten in: Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Kennedy Institute of Ethics journal
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1353/ken.1999.0021