BACKGROUND Governments and other payers are yet to determine optimal processes by which to review the safety, effectiveness, and cost-effectiveness of technologies and procedures that are in active use within health systems, and rescind funding (partially or fully) from those that display poor profiles against these parameters. To further progress a disinvestment agenda, a model is required to ...

This paper presents an overview of emerging shifts in approaches to Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) in the water and sanitation sector. Based on interviews with 21 professionals who are actively involved in the field, the analysis focused on four areas: contracts, regulation, finance and stakeholder engagement. Whilst there are obvious limitations to using interviews as a methodology, our ai...

Including target populations in the design and implementation of research trials has been one response to the growing health disparities endemic to our health care system, as well as an aid to study generalizability. One type of community-based participatory research is "Patient Centered-Research", in which patient perspectives on the germane research questions and methodologies are incorporate...

Stakeholder engagement in research has received increasing attention in recent years.1,2 The term “stakeholder engagement” refers to the process of meaningful involvement of those who are engaged in making decisions about programs.3 Engaging members of the target population is often key to improving the relevance of the issues studied, the procedures used for study, and the interpretation of ou...

Science communication scholars have debated over what factors are related to public support for science and technology. This study examines the relationship between factual knowledge of gene editing technologies, value predispositions, general attitudes among four major U.S. agricultural stakeholder groups: farmers, scientists, policymakers, public. Understanding these will aid in guiding messa...

A Working Paper is the author's intellectual property. It is intended as a means to promote research to interested readers. Its content should not be copied or hosted on any server without written permission from [email protected] Find more INSEAD papers at Abstract This paper uses an innovative methodology-the Triple Task-to propose a new framework for organising multi-stakeholders in...

This article explores issues associated with organisational governance in the context of stakeholder engagement. It argues that both public relations research and practice have yet to address systematically the challenges inherent in this area, particularly how organisations exert power over stakeholders. Prompted by a consideration of the situational theory of power put forward by the sociolog...

BACKGROUND Professional societies and other organizations have recently taken a visible role trying to define treatment value via value frameworks and assessments, providing payer or provider recommendations, and potentially impacting patient access. Patient perspectives routinely differ from those of other stakeholders. Yet, it is not always apparent that patients were engaged in value framewo...