Prioritising policies and agenda setting in reproductive health

Lindsay Edouard

Abstract

Like beauty, priorities are in the eyes of the beholder. Despite various attempts for seeking objective approaches to policy formulation, priority setting remains largely subjective and, most unfortunately, all too often tainted with either political pressure or historical considerations. Whereas individuals would consider their personal disease as the top priority with great expectations for access to all appropriate interventions, it is imperative to adopt a population-wide perspective for the wise utilisation of limited public resources: effectiveness of interventions and efficiency of services besides collaboration, specially intersectoral, are primordial.

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