It builds on the Border 2012 Environmental Program, emphasizing regional, bottom-up approaches for decision making, priority setting, and project implementation to address the environmental and public health problems in the border region.
To this end, the Mental Health and Psychosocial Support in Humanitarian Crises Research Priority Setting (MH-SET) project was initiated in 2008 using a consensus-building methodology previously implemented by the Child Health and Nutrition Research Initiative CHNRII).
This paper reports on the data relating to co-production and, in particular, priority setting of projects, the mechanisms developed to do this, and expected outcomes.
In Europe, the EEC-funded EUR-ASSESS project for the coordination of HTA activities produced a set of guidelines for the priority setting of HTA projects [ 6].
Thirty-nine studies have recruited through the databases (examples include core data analysis projects, surveys, cognitive neuroscience projects, intervention/treatment projects, research priority setting initiatives); many more studies will be supported in the coming years.
First, future research might usefully consider how formal priority setting and resource allocation projects are situated within a larger organizational and political context.
First, future research might usefully consider how formal priority setting and resource allocation projects are situated within a larger organizational and political context and how resulting decisions have an impact on different parts of the continuum of care and/or different organizations entirely.
Other data came from a study conducted by the first author as part of his PhD research project on Priority Setting in Health Care Institutions.
The REACT (REsponse to ACcountable priority setting for Trust in health systems) project is a specific targeted research and innovation project whose full title is "Strengthening of fairness and accountability in priority setting for improving equity and access to quality health care at district level in Tanzania, Kenya and Zambia".
However, these applications are not directly portable to research priority setting in biomedical translational research projects as the healthcare industry has specific properties that were not addressed in these studies.
As an action research project focusing on priority setting, there is an immediate effect on the actual practice.
