Should Priority Setting Also Be Concerned About Profound Socio-Economic Transformations? A Response to Recent Commentary

*Correspondence to: Brayan V, Seixas. Email: brayan.seixas@alumni.ubc.ca Copyright: © 2017 The Author(s); Published by Kerman University of Medical Sciences. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/ by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Citation: Seixas BV, Mitton C, Danis M, Williams I, Gold M, Baltussen R. Should priority setting also be concerned about profound socio-economic transformations? A response to recent commentary. Int J Health Policy Manag. 2017;6(x):x–x. doi:10.15171/ijhpm.2017.85 Received: 1 July 2017; Accepted: 11 July 2017; ePublished: 17 July 2017

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