Deliberations on Government Spending Priorities: Listen to the People

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Public health emergencies like COVID-19 exacerbate health inequities, particularly affecting minority and low-income populations.
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Economic stimulus packages provide short-term relief, but long-term structural changes are necessary to address social drivers of health.
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Engaging communities in prioritizing resource allocation can enhance the justice and responsiveness of social programs.
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Deliberative methods of community engagement, such as informed public deliberations, can effectively gather diverse health care priorities.
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A research team used informed deliberation to capture low-income community members' priorities for social health programs during COVID-19.

Journal Of General Internal Medicine (Springer)

by Susan Dorr Goold, Zachary Rowe, Lydia Perry, Gloria Carmona, Maria Alvarez, Adnan Hammad, Veronica Romanov, Megan Jiao, Marion Danis
April 14, 2026

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