HEALTH EXPECTATIONS

Do patients want to participate in treatment decisions? What is the best way to determine the views of health service users? What can governments do to engage citizens in setting priorities? What factors influence the demand for health care?Health Expectations aims to promote critical thinking and informed debate about all aspects of public participation in health care and health policy, including: involvement of patients and their advocates in decisions about individual health care; involvement of health service users and their representatives in aspects of service design, delivery and evaluation; involvement of the general public in debates about health care policy.

患者是否愿意参与治疗决策?确定卫生服务用户意见的最佳方法是什么?政府能做些什么来让公民参与制定优先事项?什么因素影响对卫生保健的需求?健康期望的目的是促进关于公众参与卫生保健和卫生政策的所有方面的批判性思维和知情的辩论，包括:患者及其倡导者参与有关个人卫生保健的决策;让卫生服务使用者及其代表参与服务的设计、提供和评价;公众参与有关卫生保健政策的辩论。