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How can the use of data within the immunisation programme be increased in order to improve data quality and ensure greater accountability in the health system? A protocol for implementation science study
BACKGROUND: Immunisation remains one of the most important and cost-effective interventions to reduce vaccine-preventable child morbidity, disability and mortality. Health …
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Generating evidence for health policy in challenging settings: lessons learned from four prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV implementation research studies in Nigeria
BACKGROUND: Implementation research (IR) facilitates health systems strengthening and optimal patient outcomes by generating evidence for scale-up of efficacious strategies …
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A comparative evaluation of PDQ-Evidence
BACKGROUND: A strategy for minimising the time and obstacles to accessing systematic reviews of health system evidence is to collect …
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What adaptation to research is needed following crises: a comparative, qualitative study of the health workforce in Sierra Leone and Nepal
BACKGROUND: Health workers are critical to the performance of health systems; yet, evidence about their coping strategies and support needs …
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Gaps and strategies in developing health research capacity: experience from the Nigeria Implementation Science Alliance
BACKGROUND: Despite being disproportionately burdened by preventable diseases than more advanced countries, low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) continue to trail …
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Learning by doing in practice: a roundtable discussion about stakeholder engagement in implementation research
BACKGROUND: Researchers and policy-makers alike increasingly recognise the importance of engaging diverse perspectives in implementation research. This roundtable discussion presents …
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Engaging stakeholders: lessons from the use of participatory tools for improving maternal and child care health services
BACKGROUND: Effective stakeholder engagement in research and implementation is important for improving the development and implementation of policies and programmes. …
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Strengthening scaling up through learning from implementation: comparing experiences from Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Uganda
BACKGROUND: Many effective innovations and interventions are never effectively scaled up. Implementation research (IR) has the promise of supporting scale-up …
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Using Theories of Change to inform implementation of health systems research and innovation: experiences of Future Health Systems consortium partners in Bangladesh, India and Uganda
BACKGROUND: The Theory of Change (ToC) is a management and evaluation tool supporting critical thinking in the design, implementation and …
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Development of a framework to improve the utilisation of malaria research for policy development in Malawi
BACKGROUND: The existing gap between research evidence and public health practice has attributed to the unmet Millennium Development Goals in …
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Institutional capacity to generate and use evidence in LMICs: current state and opportunities for HPSR
BACKGROUND: Evidence-informed decision-making for health is far from the norm, particularly in many low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Health policy …
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A critical appraisal of guidelines used for management of severe acute malnutrition in South Africa’s referral system
BACKGROUND: Focusing on healthcare referral processes for children with severe acute malnutrition (SAM) in South Africa, this paper discusses the …
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A ‘Grantathon’ model to mentor new investigators in mental health research
BACKGROUND: There is a critical gap between needs and available resources for mental health treatment across the world, particularly in …
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Promoting research to improve maternal, neonatal, infant and adolescent health in West Africa: the role of the West African Health Organisation
West Africa has adopted numerous strategies to counter maternal and infant mortality, provides national maternal and infant health programmes, and …
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The factors affecting the institutionalisation of two policy units in Burkina Faso’s health system: a case study
BACKGROUND: This paper is one of three linked studies that attempts to understand the process of institutionalisation of policy units …
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Evaluation of regional project to strengthen national health research systems in four countries in West Africa: lessons learned
BACKGROUND: Since the Commission on Health Research for Development (COHRED) published its flagship report, more attention has been focused on …
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The West African experience in establishing steering committees for better collaboration between researchers and decision-makers to increase the use of health research findings
BACKGROUND: Aware of the advantages of a project steering committee (SC) in terms of influencing the development of evidence-based health …
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Improving maternal and child health policymaking processes in Nigeria: an assessment of policymakers’ needs, barriers and facilitators of evidence-informed policymaking
BACKGROUND: In Nigeria, interest in the evidence-to-policy process is gaining momentum among policymakers involved in maternal, newborn and child health …
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Spanning maternal, newborn and child health (MNCH) and health systems research boundaries: conducive and limiting health systems factors to improving MNCH outcomes in West Africa
BACKGROUND: Despite improvements over time, West Africa lags behind global as well as sub-Saharan averages in its maternal, newborn and …
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Understanding the state of health policy and systems research in West Africa and capacity strengthening needs: scoping of peer-reviewed publications trends and patterns 1990–2015
BACKGROUND: The need for locally-driven, locally-generated evidence to guide health policy and systems decision-making and implementation in West Africa remains …