They said Mr. Bush would assert that the spending increase was enough to address priority needs such as improving education and stepping up the pace of medical research, but not so much that he would have any problem paying for his tax cut, the centerpiece of his agenda this year.
A health-systems approach in low- and middle-income countries is designed to address priority needs more systematically, to reach those missed in more narrowly targeted programs, and to support universal health coverage.
The African Health Regulatory Collaborative for Nurses and Midwives is designed to address priority needs in health workforce development and improve regulation of the health workforce.
In countries with the worst human resources crises, additional, country-specific cadres have been developed and deployed for many years to address priority needs, such as access to emergency obstetric care.
The main challenges related to essential medicines are associated with their limited access; the circulation of fake, substandard and counterfeit medicines; weak regulatory capacity; non-rational use of medicines; and weak research and innovation capacity to address priority needs [ 43].
Since the programme's inception, UNICEF has worked closely with national partners – particularly the Palestinian Water Authority (PWA), Ministry of Health (MOH), Ministry of Education (MoE), and the Costal Municipal Water Utility (CMWU) – in addition to local and international organizations to identify and address priority needs in the water and sanitation sectors.
Essential medicines are those which address priority healthcare needs of the populations.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency EPAannouncesces an extramural funding competition for Particulate Matter (PM Research Centerss to address priority research needs related to airborne PM, including susceptibility, mechanisms of health effects, exposure response relationships, and source linkages.
The objectives of the working group are to 1) develop a planning framework for federal research related to human and ecological health effects of endocrine disrupting chemicals; 2) conduct an inventory of ongoing federal research programs; and 3) identify research gaps and develop a coordinated interagency plan to address priority research needs.
review progress in addressing priority areas and make recommendations to the Secretary for needed program modifications.
