Priority determination for the provision of health services: An economic and social analysis

Abstract

“The relationship between rural hopelessness and health is a complex one. Ill health adds to hopelessness, but its removal does not mean there is hope…. The problem and the priority have to be the total rural hopelessness complex and not just ill health. We are only slowly beginning to understand that people themselves are aware that health may have a low ranking among the starting points for change.” [1].