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Promoting the use of Evidence in Health Policy-making in the Economic Commission of the West African States Region: Exploring the Perception of Policy-makers on the Necessity of an Evidence-Based Policy-Making Guidance

BACKGROUND: The West African Health Organization (WAHO) is promoting the use of evidence in policy-making within West Africa. The need for increased understanding of the complexities of the evidence-to-policy process among policy-makers in West Africa necessitates the development of evidence-based p...

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Autores principales: Uneke, Chigozie Jesse, Sombie, Issiaka, Johnson, Ermel, Uneke, Bilikis Iyabo, Okolo, Stanley
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
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Publicado: Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9671175/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36204907
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/aam.aam_90_20
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author Uneke, Chigozie Jesse
Sombie, Issiaka
Johnson, Ermel
Uneke, Bilikis Iyabo
Okolo, Stanley
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Sombie, Issiaka
Johnson, Ermel
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Okolo, Stanley
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description BACKGROUND: The West African Health Organization (WAHO) is promoting the use of evidence in policy-making within West Africa. The need for increased understanding of the complexities of the evidence-to-policy process among policy-makers in West Africa necessitates the development of evidence-based policy-making (EBPM) guidance. The purpose of this study was to interact with policy-makers from West African countries to identify the necessity of EBPM guidance for the subregion. METHODS: A cross-sectional qualitative study design was used to elicit the views/opinions of senior health policy-makers from across the 15 West African countries on why an EBPM Guidance is necessary for the subregion. The policy-makers were engaged during WAHO-organized regional evidence-to-policy meetings on the improvement of maternal and child health outcomes held in Senegal in 2019. Face-to-face, one-on-one interactions, interviews, and deliberations during the meeting plenary sessions were held with the policy-makers, who participated in the regional meeting. RESULTS: Up to 23 policy-makers representing 15 West African countries participated in the study. Policy-makers who took part in the study supported the development of an EBPM Guidance to facilitate evidence-to-policy process. Among the identified reasons why an EBPM Guidance for West Africa is a necessity were to understand: (i) how to deal with barriers and facilitators that influence evidence to policy process; (ii) how to acquire, access, adapt, and apply available research evidence in policy-making; (iii) how to deal with contextual issues and broad range of evidence; and (iv) how to engage parliamentarians and policy legislators to promote policy development. CONCLUSION: An EBPM is a valuable tool that can provide health sector policy-makers the needed guide on the evidence-to-policy process. Studies that will evaluate the impact of EBPM guidance on the policy-making process in low- and middle-income countries are advocated.
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spelling pubmed-96711752022-11-18 Promoting the use of Evidence in Health Policy-making in the Economic Commission of the West African States Region: Exploring the Perception of Policy-makers on the Necessity of an Evidence-Based Policy-Making Guidance Uneke, Chigozie Jesse Sombie, Issiaka Johnson, Ermel Uneke, Bilikis Iyabo Okolo, Stanley Ann Afr Med Original Article BACKGROUND: The West African Health Organization (WAHO) is promoting the use of evidence in policy-making within West Africa. The need for increased understanding of the complexities of the evidence-to-policy process among policy-makers in West Africa necessitates the development of evidence-based policy-making (EBPM) guidance. The purpose of this study was to interact with policy-makers from West African countries to identify the necessity of EBPM guidance for the subregion. METHODS: A cross-sectional qualitative study design was used to elicit the views/opinions of senior health policy-makers from across the 15 West African countries on why an EBPM Guidance is necessary for the subregion. The policy-makers were engaged during WAHO-organized regional evidence-to-policy meetings on the improvement of maternal and child health outcomes held in Senegal in 2019. Face-to-face, one-on-one interactions, interviews, and deliberations during the meeting plenary sessions were held with the policy-makers, who participated in the regional meeting. RESULTS: Up to 23 policy-makers representing 15 West African countries participated in the study. Policy-makers who took part in the study supported the development of an EBPM Guidance to facilitate evidence-to-policy process. Among the identified reasons why an EBPM Guidance for West Africa is a necessity were to understand: (i) how to deal with barriers and facilitators that influence evidence to policy process; (ii) how to acquire, access, adapt, and apply available research evidence in policy-making; (iii) how to deal with contextual issues and broad range of evidence; and (iv) how to engage parliamentarians and policy legislators to promote policy development. CONCLUSION: An EBPM is a valuable tool that can provide health sector policy-makers the needed guide on the evidence-to-policy process. Studies that will evaluate the impact of EBPM guidance on the policy-making process in low- and middle-income countries are advocated. Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2022 2022-09-26 /pmc/articles/PMC9671175/ /pubmed/36204907 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/aam.aam_90_20 Text en Copyright: © 2022 Annals of African Medicine https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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Promoting the use of Evidence in Health Policy-making in the Economic Commission of the West African States Region: Exploring the Perception of Policy-makers on the Necessity of an Evidence-Based Policy-Making Guidance
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title_full Promoting the use of Evidence in Health Policy-making in the Economic Commission of the West African States Region: Exploring the Perception of Policy-makers on the Necessity of an Evidence-Based Policy-Making Guidance
title_fullStr Promoting the use of Evidence in Health Policy-making in the Economic Commission of the West African States Region: Exploring the Perception of Policy-makers on the Necessity of an Evidence-Based Policy-Making Guidance
title_full_unstemmed Promoting the use of Evidence in Health Policy-making in the Economic Commission of the West African States Region: Exploring the Perception of Policy-makers on the Necessity of an Evidence-Based Policy-Making Guidance
title_short Promoting the use of Evidence in Health Policy-making in the Economic Commission of the West African States Region: Exploring the Perception of Policy-makers on the Necessity of an Evidence-Based Policy-Making Guidance
title_sort promoting the use of evidence in health policy-making in the economic commission of the west african states region: exploring the perception of policy-makers on the necessity of an evidence-based policy-making guidance
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9671175/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36204907
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/aam.aam_90_20
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