Introducing the Policy Options Framework(cont...)

Other key points include:

* Prevention policies are implemented by both the health sector and key non-health sector

stakeholders such as ministries of finance (tobacco tax) and of transportation (injury prevention). By contrast, most treatment policies are implemented within the health sector.

* Prevention policies apply to the general public with spin-off applications in the private sector.

Treatment policies apply equally to both the public and private sectors.

* Financing for burden assessment and population-based prevention efforts are mostly publicly

funded while that for treatment is both public and private with most (currently) coming from

private sources.

* Applying the framework to a lower-capacity country setting can then highlight the subset of

options for population- and individual-based interventions that are strategic (Appendix 4). For

example, with limited capacity, planning and human resource development constitute the focus

and an emphasis within the population-based mode—within the health sector, as compared to

clinical mode efforts. Risk factor and health sector capacity assessment, policy for risk factor

reduction, and financing to support these activities are also strategic starting points in lowcapacity

settings.