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Q-Ing For Health – A New Approach To Eliciting The Public’S Views On Health Care Resource Allocation, Rachel M. Baker, John Wildman, Helen Mason, Cam Donaldson

Professor Rachel Baker

The elicitation of societal views about health care priority setting is an important, contemporary research area and there are a number of studies which apply either qualitative techniques or quantitative preference elicitation methods. However there are methodological challenges in connecting qualitative information (what perspectives exist about a subject) with quantitative questions (to what extent are those perspectives ‘supported’ in a wider population). In this paper we present an integrated, mixed-methods approach to the elicitation of public perspectives in two, linked studies applying Q methodology. In the first study we identify three broad viewpoints on the subject of health priorities. In …