Consumer Participation
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Microbicides development programme: engaging the community in the standard of care debate in a vaginal microbicide trial in Mwanza, Tanzania.

7 Oct 2009 BACKGROUND: HIV prevention research in resource-limited countries is associated with a variety of ethical dilemmas. Key amongst these is the question of what constitutes an appropriate standard of health care (SoC) for participants in HIV prevention ... Read more...

Consumer-driven health care: answer to global competition or threat to social justice?

29 Sep 2009 Health planning in the United States is rapidly approaching a fork in the policy road, with one direction leading the nation toward a universal plan with strong government involvement and the other direction strengthening existing market-based ... Read more...

New citizens for the life sciences.

16 Sep 2009 For years, the general public have been helping scientists to track weather, count birds, and observe the universe. Now such citizen scientists are starting to tackle research projects in the life sciences. Laura Bonetta ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Consumer Participation'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Mobilising the community in the fight against HIV/AIDS. 29 Oct 2009
• Group Health Cooperative--one coverage-and-delivery model for accountable care. 20 Oct 2009
• Microbicides development programme: engaging the community in the standard of care debate in a vaginal microbicide trial in Mwanza, Tanzania. 7 Oct 2009
• Consumer-driven health care: answer to global competition or threat to social justice? 29 Sep 2009
• Poor substitutes--why cooperatives and triggers can't achieve the goals of a public option. 21 Sep 2009
• New citizens for the life sciences. 16 Sep 2009
• Implementing evidence-based practice in community mental health agencies: a multiple stakeholder analysis. 15 Sep 2009
• Eliminating health disparities through transdisciplinary research, cross-agency collaboration, and public participation. 15 Sep 2009
• Association of classroom participation and examination performance in a first-year medical school course. 30 Aug 2009
• Experiences of disability consumer-directed care users in Australia: results from a longitudinal qualitative study. 30 Aug 2009
• Transitions from school for young adults with intellectual disability: Parental perspectives on "life as an adjustment". 30 Aug 2009
• Community participation in New Mexico's behavioral health care reform. 30 Aug 2009
• Of taps and toilets: quasi-experimental protocol for evaluating community-demand-driven projects. 30 Aug 2009
• Responsive consumerism: empowerment in markets for health plans. 30 Aug 2009
• Starting at strengths . . .an Indigenous early years intervention. Aug 2009
• Changes in Aleut concerns following the stakeholder-driven Amchitka independent science assessment. 30 Jul 2009
• Lifestyle interventions: from individuals to communities. 30 Jul 2009
• Racial and ethnic differences in willingness to participate in psychiatric genetic research. 30 Jul 2009
• Upstream engagement and the governance of science. The shadow of the genetically modified crops experience in Europe. 30 Jul 2009
• Through the eyes of children: engaging primary school-aged children in creating supportive school environments for physical activity and nutrition. 30 Jul 2009

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Technical information about 'Consumer Participation'

Definition: Community or individual involvement in the decision-making process.

Descriptor UI: D003256

Alternative terms: Consumer Participation; Participation, Consumer; Consumer Involvement; Consumer Involvements; Involvement, Consumer; Community Participation; Participation, Community; Public Participation; Participation, Public; Community Action; Action, Community; Actions, Community; Community Actions;

Allowable Qualifiers: economics; history; legislation & jurisprudence; methods; psychology; statistics & numerical data; trends; utilization;

Tree Number: N02.421.143.262; N03.540.245.360;

History Note: 74