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Priorities 2010
The Commonwealth Fund Announces the 2010-11 Harkness Fellowships
- Members interested in using a Harkness Fellowship to visit the University of Michigan may contact member Susan Goold sgoold@umich.edu
Value in Health, 2009: theme issue on QALYs
New Management Committee announced
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President of Society: Marion Danis, National Institutes of Health Bioethics Department, U.S.A.
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Treasurer: Søren Holm, Cardiff University, U.K.
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Secretary: Stuart Peacock, Centre for Health Economics in Cancer, B.C., Canada
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For other members, see here
Top 10 articles on priority setting in health care
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The society announces a new competition, click here
New BMJ issue on
Rationing
(Oct 18, 2008)
Nominations for new management committee now open
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New officers and members of the management committee will be elected just after the Newcastle meeting. Nominations are open until our annual general meeting October 30th.
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Please download the nomination form here and submit your nomination by mail/e-mail (PrioritiesNominations@umich.edu) before October 20, or place in Nominations slotted box at Conference by noon, Thursday October 30, 2008.
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For more information, feel free to contact current members of the management committee.
The priorities 2008 conference - See the programme here
New WHO-Report: Closing the gap in a generation: Health equity through action on the social determinants of health
- Social justice is a matter of life and death. It affects the way people live, their consequent chance of illness, and their risk of premature death. Health equity is an important concern also for priority setting in health.
Justice and Health
- Norman Daniels recently completed Just Health: A Population View (Cambridge University Press, 2008), which is a sequel to his 1985 book Just Health Care.