Why does a public health issue (not) get priority? Agenda setting for the national burns programme in India.

ABSTRACT: There is growing scholarly interest in what leads to global or national prioritization of specific health issues. By retrospectively analysing agenda setting for India's national burn programme, this study aimed to better understand how the agenda-setting process influenced its design, implementation and performance. We conducted document reviews and key informant interviews with stakeholders and used a combination of analytical frameworks on policy prioritization and issue framing for analysis. The READ (readying material, extracting data, analysing data and distilling findings) approach was used for document reviews, and qualitative thematic analysis was used for coding and analysis of documents and interviews. The findings suggest three critical features of burns care policy prioritizat

SUBMITTER: Keshri VR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11095263 | biostudies-literature | 2024 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature