The treatment of the issue and the target group in sexual and reproductive health policy

Abstract

This writing is an exercise of reflection on the way policy issues and policy target groups are addressed during the policy design process. Some theoretical approaches, from the cognitive realms of the policy studies, suggest that issues and targets’ treatment of public policies depends on a series of cognitive and socially constructed aspects that interfere in the design as it is a process handled by actors. The proposed written discusses sexual health and reproductive rights as a subfield of policies as well as on trans people as examples of a policy issue and target groups that depict the way in which social artifacts of making sense of the world and cognitive processes such as framing could affect the development of the policy and the benefits for a group of people.