This paper presents a comparative evaluation based on a suite of carbon footprint and cost data associated with 20 expansion alternatives for a systematic priority analysis of a drinking water infrastructure system in South Florida.
Systematic priority setting, adequate funding, and institutional capacity building are needed to address these inequities.
Determining the relative importance of priority setting criteria is, therefore, an important ingredient in systematic priority setting processes.
Over the last five years, two systematic priority-setting exercises to identify policy-relevant priorities were conducted in the EMR.
The Nigerian project, with political interest and involvement, systematic priority-setting exercises and capacity building initiatives, represents the other.
Methods for priority setting in primary health care have been suggested [ 4, 13, 14], but there are few practical examples of systematic priority setting in PHC [ 15].
This preference for individual responsibility may arise from concern about fallacies in the accuracy and sensitivity of systematic priority scoring tools in clinical practice which have been shown to exist [ 32, 33].
Two important aspects of culture seemed crucial enablers of systematic priority setting processes, namely the importance attached to the use of evidence and the openness to consultative and deliberative processes (Astley and Wake-Dyster 2001; Madden et al. 2005; Danjoux et al. 2007).
Systematic, transparent, priority setting in PHC might contribute to a greater consensus between GPs and nurses on how to use the key priority setting criteria.
Systematic, transparent, priority setting in PHC – where decisions and the grounds for them are accessible to everyone – might also increase the consensus between GPs and nurses on how to use the key priority setting criteria and prevent other values from overshadowing them [ 43].
