In view of the vast areas of TCM yet to be explored and the limited resources available for such an emerging area of research in the global context, prioritisation and focus become the key to achieving real innovation.
Wilson et al. (2009, p. 24) describe the relevance of threats in the context of spatial prioritisation: ' The purpose of identifying priority areas for biodiversity conservation is to mitigate some of the processes that threaten biodiversity.
Efficiency in the context of spatial prioritisation frequently implies cost efficiency, which can be defined as the ratio of benefits to costs (Pearce & Moran, 1994; Ando et al., 1998; Juutinen & Mönkkönen, 2004; Naidoo et al., 2006; Wilson et al., 2009).
This prioritisation is particularly pertinent in the context of contemporary changes in the drug use and harms among PWID.
In the second, researchers used a participatory modelling tool conjunctively with multi-criteria analysis to identify community values relevant to the prioritisation of environmental assets in the context of water scarcity.
In general, the importance of lifestyle or personal responsibility for illness (when previously explored in preference studies) suggest these may be relevant to the public, but they have generally been found to be of relatively minor importance compared to other prioritisation criteria, and may well be context dependent.
An application of the prioritisation matrix is presented within an environmental context through a case study of water demand management behaviours for domestic consumers in Australia.
The range of clinical indications was further narrowed down using characteristics of context as criteria for the prioritisation of relevant clinical questions.
A critical and informed analysis of context and actors and the prioritisation of quality assurance are central to the successful scale up of HIV services.
Our study, however, illustrates the complexity of using such an apparently simple framework in a particular, practical context, by showing that the prioritisation and interpretation of the same values amongst influential experts is not consistent.
