Using frameworks to set priorities for health policy

This article systematically reviewed a set of health policy papers on agenda setting and tests them against a specific priority-setting framework. The authors applied a commonly used Shiffman and Smith framework, which identified four conditions which would facilitate a priority issue being integrated into national policies and then acted on. The four conditions are actor power (the strength of the individuals and networks concerned with the issue), ideas (the ways in which those involved with the issue understand and portray it), context (environment in which actors operate) and issue characteristics.
Source: Reproductive Health Matters - Category: Global & Universal Source Type: research