Health Outcome Planning for Women's Health: Fad or Future Imperative?

Abstract

The answer to the question of whether planning for women's health is fad or future imperative is probably that it is both. A focus on achieving a desired outcome through a specified intervention is hardly new. From pre-Hellenic times to the era of goals and targets era of the early 1990s, clients have understandably kept a sharp eye on the results of health services. The focus shifted from outputs and outcomes to the resources that go into health care when large scale public funding and powerful institutions became so important in the twentieht century.