Agenda-setting in health reform:the role of community

Abstract

This paper presents a number of issues surrounding the setting of agendas for health care reform. We argue the needfor increased community involvement, as well as the necessity to wrest health-care decision-making from health careprofessionals, or at least to ensure that such decision-making is informed by community values.We attempt to answer a few questions: who sets the health reform agenda and who should set it, how is the agendaset and why is this critical, when and where is the agenda set, and how should the agenda be set in the future?