Selecting criteria to decide priorities

Before your team begins setting priorities, they have to agree on criteria they will use to set the health focus areas. Criteria used to set priorities in , and will assist in setting criteria or standards for your assessment team.

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Their criteria for setting priorities were based on five principles:

  1. Local community can have the greatest impact on health by intervening in the
  2. The greatest improvements in health can be achieved in areas where there are
  3. The priority health areas must address those conditions that result in the
  4. The priority health areas should reflect
  5. Progress should be measurable through

Criteria guiding selection of Leading Health Indicators were: