Establishes the value of the community jury as a deliberative method for engaging the public in debates about cancer screening to elicit their informed views on policy questions.
The central prioritization committee set up during the filtration stage will meet again to establish, through a deliberative method, a list of five topics in order of priority, as a means of identifying one priority topic that will be evaluated as well as other important topics that could be assessed in the future.
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Then, focus groups, each addressing one risk area, could prioritize the initiatives, based on their effects on the risk attributes as well as cost-effectiveness, using a process analogous to the deliberative method for ranking risks.
In an ideal scenario, after the deliberative method for ranking risk factors reveals which risk areas are most important to stakeholders and after menus of possible risk reduction initiatives are developed, risk analysts would estimate the effects of each initiative on each of the risk attributes in the risk summary sheets.
Of course, endorsing a deliberative, democratic method is no guarantee of applying it consistently or wisely.
Thomas Graff of the Environmental Defense Fund said, "There are probably a few good ideas mixed in with an awful lot of mischievous proposals". He said he preferred the Deukmejian Administration's "deliberative" method rather than Ayala's "confrontational" method.
Building on the deliberative method for ranking risks, our approach overcomes one of the most important limitations (lack of a systematic process for combining quantitative risk analysis with stakeholder engagement) of previous environmental health strategic planning exercises around the world.
In the context of disinvestment decision-making where, it may be argued, there is a particular imperative for "health services to be accountable to users as taxpayers, voters and consumers" [ 19], deliberative methods represent a more transparent means of addressing the complex, ethical nature of resource allocation and policymaking.
This paper reports on an evaluation study of two deliberative methods of public participation of the "hard-to-reach" in food-policy development the citizens' workshop and the citizens' jury.
According to this study, deliberative methods could facilitate a more informed choice in the prioritization of topics than methods such as questionnaires or individual interviews, where the opinion of the public participants is requested only once and without first being discussed.
