- Pharmaceutical industry-led medical research
- Ethics committees
- Regulatory authorities
- Health technology assessment 


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Allowing patients to be more active and understanding of their own healthcare, therefore allowing patients to make decisions for their own health 


Democratization of Healthcare 

M, G.-M., C, A.-P., B, H. A. W., Js, J., A, B.-C., & Ks, K. (2020, October 31). Patient and public involvement in sexual and Reproductive Health: Time to properly integrate citizen's input into science. International journal of environmental research and public health. Retrieved November 16, 2021, from https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7663614/. 


The Need for Citizen Science in Sexual and Reproductive Health Research Reference

- A solution to poor sexual and reproductive health outcomes among women could be to utilize citizen science, by engaging the general public and the patients of this healthcare system 
- Citizen science research allows researchers to find better solutions and focus on topics that are more important to the general public, as well as look at problems through case specific context 
- A variety of experiences display the varying opinion of the public, creating more opportunities for solutions from researchers 


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