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Giving a Voice to Marginalised Groups for Health Care Decision Making

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Acknowledgements

The authors would like to thank all the attendees at the 11th International Academy of Health Preference Research (IAHPR) meeting for their participation in the symposium, Chris Carswell for his contribution as a consumer representative panellist in the symposium and Professor Gail Garvey for her input on those sections of these proceedings relating to decision making in Indigenous populations.

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  1. Centre for Health Economics Research and Evaluation, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia

    Richard De Abreu Lourenço

  2. Health Economics Unit, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

    Nancy Devlin

  3. Sydney School of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia

    Kirsten Howard

  4. Central Clinical School, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

    Jason J. Ong

  5. Department of Clinical Research and Development, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK

    Jason J. Ong

  6. Health and Social Care Economics Group, Caring Futures Institute, Flinders University, Bedford Park, SA, Australia

    Julie Ratcliffe

  7. HTA Consumer Consultative Committee, Technology Assessment and Access Division, Australian Government Department of Health, Canberra, ACT, Australia

    Jo Watson

  8. Kōhatu-Centre for Hauora Māori, Division of Health Sciences, University of Otago, Otago, New Zealand

    Esther Willing

  9. Department of Health Services Research and Policy, School of Population Health, ANU College of Health and Medicine, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia

    Elisabeth Huynh

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This symposium was conducted under the title ‘Giving a voice to marginalised groups for health care reform’; in developing these proceedings it was agreed that the term ‘health care decision making’ better reflected the contents of the day.

This article is part of the topical collection on “From the International Academy of Health Preference Research”.

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De Abreu Lourenço, R., Devlin, N., Howard, K. et al. Giving a Voice to Marginalised Groups for Health Care Decision Making. Patient 14, 5–10 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40271-020-00456-1

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