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Prof Vikki Entwistle

Vikki Entwistle is Professor of Values in Health Care at the University of Dundee. She is an Associate Director of SDHI and a member of the Alliance for Self Care research.

Vikki has previously worked at the NHS Centre for Reviews and Dissemination at the University of York, the Health Services Research Unit at the University of Aberdeen, and the Department of Health Policy and Management at Harvard School of Public Health. She has conducted research in a number of domains, including: media coverage of health issues; the involvement of service users in health services research and planning; the development and provision of information about health care effectiveness for service users; patients' involvement in decisions about their own health care; and patients' perspectives on and contributions to the quality and safety of health care.

Vikki's current research relates broadly to the influence of health care policies and practices on people's self identities, vulnerabilities and opportunities to contribute to their health. Vikki is increasingly engaging with ethical as well as social analyses. She is particularly interested in the application of relational understandings of autonomy to health care contexts, and in the development, implementation and implications of policies that aim to enhance individuals' contributions to their own care and health.

Vikki is the Editor of Health Expectations: an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy (http://www.wiley.com/bw/journal.asp?ref=1369-6513). She also serves on a number of health services research and policy committees.

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