As fiscal constraints dominate health policy discussions across Canada and globally, priority-setting exercises are becoming more common to guide the difficult choices that must be made.
As fiscal constraints dominate health policy and planning discussions both across Canada and globally, priority-setting exercises are becoming more common to guide the difficult choices that must be made [ 1].
In spite of the existing structures and the clearly spelled out ideals of decentralisation, we found that in the case of the PMTCT programme the system remained heavily reliant on external funders who tend to guard their own globally generated priority agendas in a manner that disregards local experiences and priorities.
Although the donors had been instructed by the MoHSW to respond to the regional and district plans and priorities, the informants lamented that the donors did not follow these instructions, and the regional administration was not in a position to halt the donors' continued follow up of their own globally defined priority areas.
As donors had their own globally defined priorities, it proved difficult for district and regional managers to accommodate locally defined PMTCT priorities in these plans.
"China is our top priority globally now," said Benjamin Vuchot, the Asia-Pacific chief of Van Cleef & Arpels, the French purveyor of exclusive jewelry, which is expanding aggressively in the region.
Diabetes has become a challenging health priority globally.
Seasonally dry tropical forests (SDTF) are exposed to numerous threats stemming from human activity and are considered a high conservation priority globally.
First, although a growing number of countries have adopted national suicide prevention strategies, suicide prevention is still not a health priority globally.
Developing effective, evidence-based interventions to address this problem should be a public health priority globally.
The prevention of type 2 diabetes is a recognised health care priority globally.
