Evidence-Based Priority Setting for Health Care and Research: Tools to Support Policy in Maternal, Neonatal, and Child Health in Africa.

An essay is presented on the prioritization tools which can be used for African maternal, neonatal, and child health care policy. It explores health care prioritization tools including Marginal Budgeting for Bottlenecks (MBB), Choosing Interventions that are Cost-Effective (WHO-CHOICE), and Lives Saved Tool (LiST). It tackles research prioritization tools including Council on Health Research for Development (COHRED), Essential National Health Research (ENHR), and Combined Approach Matrix (CAM).