Inserting Value in Health Policy: A Literature Synthesis

Abstract

Value notion in neither considered in the health economic analysis nor in health policy. Most of the papers are empirical in nature and value notion comes up only in methodology. Going beyond the factual details to approach normative stance and moving from statement of good or bad to statement of value in discourse of health policy is the main convergence of arguments arrived from different literature in this paper. Health care, in its present form, is nothing less than a basic need of every human being but there is doubt whether health care research in developed countries considers ‘value’. It is the objective of this paper to emphasize about this need.