Today’s blog comes to us from Aaron Pond, Director at GLOBALHealthPR UK partner, Aurora.
Activating the public’s voice in healthcare priority setting intuitively makes sense, but can be laden with challenges and risks marginalising those voices that most need to be heard. Surely these aren’t reasons for not trying?
Theorists see a number of benefits in involving the public in healthcare priority setting and perhaps the one that resonates the most with me is instrumental benefit – engaging the public can help identify key social value considerations that should shape policy. After all, a policy should complement the opinions of the public it serves. [Read more…] about We Hate Data and Dialogue?