Milevska-Kostova, N., Devi, R. and Cooper, R. orcid.org/0000-0001-5110-0384 (2020) Role of patients’ organizations in Health Technology Assessment: a Habermasian system and lifeworld perspective. International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care, 37 (1). e6. ISSN 0266-4623
Abstract
Patient and public involvement in Health Technology Assessment (HTA) is gaining increased interest among research and policy communities. Patients’ organizations represent an important link between individual patients and the health system. Social theories are increasingly being used to explain doctor–patient–system interactions, expanding understanding beyond the mere clinical perspective. In this sense, patient involvement in HTA can also be considered through the Habermas’s theory of communicative action. From a Habermasian perspective, HTA as part of the instrumental rationality contributes to an increased efficiency of resource use within the system; however, such rationalization threatens to colonize the lifeworld by making it “increasingly state administered with attenuated possibilities for communicative action as a result of the commercialization and rationalization in terms of immediate returns.” Using Habermasian system/lifeworld framework, this paper explores opportunities and obstacles to patient involvement in HTA, whereby trying to understand current and possible roles of patients’ organizations as a mediating force between HTA as a function of the system and the lifeworld represented by patients.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © The Author(s), 2020. Published by Cambridge University Press. This is an author produced version of a paper subsequently published in International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care. Article available under the terms of the CC-BY-NC-ND license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). |
Keywords: | Technology assessment; Biomedical; Patient participation; Communication; Policy; Health resources; Social theory |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health (Sheffield) > School of Health and Related Research (Sheffield) > ScHARR - Sheffield Centre for Health and Related Research |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 15 Dec 2020 13:08 |
Last Modified: | 01 Feb 2022 11:06 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1017/S0266462320002147 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:169040 |
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