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Araújo, N., Reis, A. M., Borges, A., Neves, J. M. & Rosa, Á. (2023). Setting priorities in health: The managers' perspectives versus general public. International Journal of Care Coordination. N/A, 1-8

N. M. Araújo et al.,  "Setting priorities in health: The managers' perspectives versus general public", in Int. Journal of Care Coordination, vol. N/A, pp. 1-8, 2023

@article{araújo2023_1715924003563,
	author = "Araújo, N. and Reis, A. M. and Borges, A. and Neves, J. M. and Rosa, Á.",
	title = "Setting priorities in health: The managers' perspectives versus general public",
	journal = "International Journal of Care Coordination",
	year = "2023",
	volume = "N/A",
	number = "",
	doi = "10.1177/20534345231191037",
	pages = "1-8",
	url = "https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/journal/international-journal-care-coordination"
}

TY  - JOUR
TI  - Setting priorities in health: The managers' perspectives versus general public
T2  - International Journal of Care Coordination
VL  - N/A
AU  - Araújo, N.
AU  - Reis, A. M.
AU  - Borges, A.
AU  - Neves, J. M.
AU  - Rosa, Á.
PY  - 2023
SP  - 1-8
SN  - 2053-4345
DO  - 10.1177/20534345231191037
UR  - https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/journal/international-journal-care-coordination
AB  - Introduction: Decision-makers are constantly confronted with the need of balancing limited resources while establishing rationing criteria in health care system. However, there is an emerging trend in involving citizens in rationing debates as mechanism to assuring legitimacy in the decision-making process. This paper aims to explore  citizens’ opinions on priority setting in health care access in comparison with the perspectives of managers.
Methods: An online questionnaire was used to collect the data. A logistic regression was applied to evaluate factors that shape the prioritization of groups in access to health care services. The collected data comprehends 400 individuals, aged 18 years old and over living in continental Portugal.
Results: The study results reveal that managers and the general public, in the context of limited resources, both agree with the need to prioritize some groups over others in access to health care services. The priority groups would include the elderly, children, and people with chronic conditions. The most outstanding finding is that managers prefer children as their first priority group against the general public who has considered as top priority the elder ones.
Discussion: This study identified which stakeholders are prone to be included in decision-making processes for effective priority-setting models in the health care systems and evaluated their preferences.
ER  -