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Assignment - Priority Setting Exercise

In Assessment 2 you conducted a health inequality audit for a zone from the Social Health Atlas. In your audit you uncovered inequalities in several health indicators.

For Assessment 3, you will write a report on the factors that may influence priority setting for these health indicators in your zone. Key factors influencing priority setting may include:

- The scale of the problem

- Alignment with governments' priorities and targets

- Financial cost

- Potential to produce improvement

- Strength of evidence base.

The report must contain:

1. Introduction of factors influencing priority setting including data comparison addressing social determinants of health; Identifying the scale of the problem; evidence of reading three recommended papers.

2. Discussion of factors influencing priority setting including aligning the priority with governments' priorities and targets; assessing the financial cost; potential to produce improvement; Strength of evidence base; Other factors considered; Conclusion.

3. High quality presentation, in terms of format, meeting general requirements for task; coherence of expression; and adherence to conventions of writing (spelling, grammar, length) and referencing.

Learn more about priority setting in these 3 papers. You are expected to refer to these 3 papers in your report:

1. Viergever et al. (2010). A checklist for health research priority setting: nine common themes of good practice. Health Research Policy and Systems, 8:36.

2. Persad et al. (2009). Principles for allocation of scarce medical interventions. Lancet, 373: 423-31.

3. MacDonald and 011erenshaw (2011). Priority setting in primary health care: a framework for local catchments. Rural and Remote Health, 11: 1714.