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| Laying the foundation for the Fairness Dialogues | |
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| Investigator (PI): | Asada, Yukiko |
| Performing Organization (PO): |
(Current): Dalhousie University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Community Health and Epidemiology / (902) 494-3860 |
| Supporting Agency (SA): | Nova Scotia Health Research Foundation |
| Initial Year: | 2016 |
| Final Year: | 2017 |
| Record Source/Award ID: | NSHRF/10088 |
| Funding: | Total Award Amount: $15,000 |
| Award Type: | Grant |
| Abstract: | The public increasingly plays a critical role in agenda setting, implementation, and evaluation of health research, health policy, and the delivery of health care. The simple question "What do people think?" drives many public engagement efforts. Posing this question is particularly meaningful when issues relate to values, such as fairness or equity, where the right answers cannot be found easily. For example, what are societal responsibilities and limits for promoting healthy behaviours? How can we ensure equal access for equal need when a large and diverse geographic area, like Canada's, makes it unattainable? By exploring what people think is fair in health care, health care professionals, policymakers, and researchers can understand, shape, and act upon people's values. The overarching aim of this application is to establish a foundation for the creation of the Fairness Dialogues, a forum to obtain well-informed and reflective values of the public on equity issues related to primary health care in Nova Scotia. We envision the Fairness Dialogues to have these defining features: (a) an ongoing listening forum, through which researchers and policymakers can regularly seek the public's views; (b) a methodological laboratory, in which researchers can explore different methods of public engagement and examine their effects; and (c) dynamic conversations between the general public and experts (e.g., researchers and policymakers), where views of the public and experts serve as inputs to a collective and dynamic reflective process to inform health policy decisions. In this Development/Innovative Grant, we propose to conduct developmental work with the specific objectives: (1) to identify basic principles for effective use of visual displays, especially graphics, to communicate inequality and inequity information in health and health care; and (2) to assess the feasibility of eliciting values on equity in primary health care. To meet the first objective, we will conduct a scoping review, and to meet the second objective, we will carry out a qualitative study. Following completion of the proposed developmental work, we will prepare a proposal for the CIHR Project Scheme competition in spring 2017 to establish the Fairness Dialogues. The proposed project squarely aligns with the NSHRF's mandate. It addresses two of the five population health priorities (factors that contribute to inequities and issues specific and unique to marginalized populations in Nova Scotia) and one of the four health services priorities (primary health care access). When established, the Fairness Dialogues will ultimately help Nova Scotians have substantial input to their health care system so it reflects their values on fairness. It will also contribute to the collection of a new type of data-people's values. With the increasing emphasis on public engagement in health policy, the need for such data will intensify in the coming years. |
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| Country: | Canada |
| State: | Nova Scotia |
| Zip Code: | B3H 1V7 |
| UI: | 20161258 |
| Project Status: | Completed |