Project Antares and crowdsourcing in India : exploring the beneficiaries' perceptions of healthcare priorities

Abstract

The purpose of this thesis is to contribute towards an improved healthcare priority system. It is imperative that the outcomes of health prioritization tools are accurate and up--‐to--‐date. Project Antares aims to outline future informed healthcare policies and has the potential to have a great impact in a near future over the decision makers of this field. In the last decade, many companies have successfully used crowdsourcing, act of outsourcing a task to an undefined large network to solve some of their most challenging issues. A survey conducted on Amazon Mechanical Turk, an online crowdsourcing platform, helped us infer a set of health priorities for India. Priority scores were computed from the data collected and the results are discussed in the context of the extant literature.