Bridging divides

Patient and public involvement on both sides of the Atlantic

Bibliographic Data

ID19505886
AuthorsJonathan Q Tritter (0000-0001-6258-4628), Jonathan Tritter (0000-0002-1651-2428, University of Warwick), Karen Lutfey (University of Warwick)
Year2009
Volume12
Issue3
Pages221-225
Publication date2009-09-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueHealth Expectations (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1369-6513 • E-ISSN: 1369-7625
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1369-7625.2009.00566.x
PMID19754686
OpenAlexW1990000782
LanguageEN
Citations received6
References cited8

Bridging divides: patient and public involvement on both sides of the Atlantic This themed section grew out of a series of three British-American medical sociology conferences, the most recent of which was convened in Boston, Massachusetts, in 2008.The two previous meetings took place in the UK: the first at Royal Holloway College, London University in 1999, and the second at the University of Edinburgh in 2006.This series of small residential meetings was organized around plenary sessions and small working group sessions in order to create an opportunity for small group discussion and personal interaction that is not typically available in larger conference formats.The meetings have been highly successful with over 100 delegates representing countries from across Europe, North America and Asia and working in a wide range of academic and non-academic positions, including not only sociology but also public health, communications and policy fields.The topic of user involvement was a central theme in the last meeting, with a thematic focus on ÔExpanding Comparative Frames for Medical Sociology: Professionals, Patients, and the PublicÕ.One of our goals for this themed section has been to capture some of the tensions and different conceptions of user involvement from the perspective of scholars in different countries.To this end, we sought submissions from conference participants but also medical sociology and health services researchers in the United States, UK and other countries.Healthcare systems are very differently organized around the world and nowhere is this distinction more dramatic than between the UK National Health Service (NHS) and the frag

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