Antimicrobial resistance national level dialogue and action in Ghana: setting and sustaining the agenda and outcomes.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) has gained national and international attention. The design and launch of national policy on antimicrobial use and resistance and action plan marked a milestone in Ghana's commitment to control AMR. These strategies are some outcomes of getting and sustaining AMR issues prominence on government's agenda. Understanding the agenda setting processes, policy actors involved and policy change is important as this provides insights on how and why policy actors defined and framed AMR issues to sustain its prominence despite the changing priorities of government agenda.

Objective

To examine the processes of setting and sustaining AMR issues on government agenda, the policy actors involved and resulting outcomes.

Methods

A qualitative

SUBMITTER: Koduah A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8524845 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature