Codesign is increasingly valued in health research as a way to actively include stakeholders in the research process, particularly for groups that have been historically excluded, such as young people. Despite its popularity, codesign is often inconsistently defined in literature. This creates challenges for applying it consistently across research projects and for evaluating its...
Maternal violence, in terms of obstetric violence and/or the disrespect and abuse of women and birthing people accessing maternity care, is a global concern. This mistreatment and experience of maternal violence and harm has negative physical and psychological impacts on women, birthing people and their babies. This paper evaluates a multipartner project which aimed to co-produce...
Engaging in partnerships is key to the success of knowledge mobilization (KM) activities; however, how best to engage partners in KM activities in the context of paediatric pain and children’s health more broadly is not well understood. There is limited guidance on what supports the development of effective partnerships in KM activities with a variety of partner types. The...
The promotion of evidence-based policymaking (EBPM) is increasingly recognized globally for its potential to maximize health outcomes by efficiently utilizing finite resources and focusing on evidence. Although previous literature has identified some facilitators and barriers to promoting EBPM, these are mainly produced in Western countries, with no comparable research conducted...
Despite many improvements in maternal, newborn, sexual, and reproductive health (RMNCAH) in sub-Saharan Africa, the overall progress remains inadequate and uneven. Some of the reasons for this include fragmented healthcare systems, gaps in evidence-based policy, inadequate investment and funding for health, and weaknesses in policy dissemination and implementation. Current...
Health workers must implement severe acute malnutrition (SAM) guidelines to provide quality services for acutely malnourished children. Healthcare providers must adhere to the national severe acute malnutrition guidelines while treating patients. However, limited data are available on the healthcare providers’ implementation of severe acute malnutrition guidelines and the...
Canada’s clinical research landscape is limited by minimal community hospital engagement. However, research participation in community hospitals may increase the speed of trial enrolment, enhance the generalizability of results and accelerate knowledge translation to community hospitals, where most Canadians receive care. Two identified barriers to community hospital...
We sought to adapt a peer navigator (PN) model to increase uptake of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) prevention, testing and treatment of street-involved youth (SIY) in Canada and Kenya. This article presents key findings on the optimal characteristics of the PN model for SIY across and between sites, prior to intervention implementation. Using an integrated mixed methods...
Cardiopulmonary resuscitation offers the potential to save a person’s life. However, this highly invasive medical treatment is not always appropriate, and the likelihood of success is relatively low. In Ireland, the Health Service Executive (HSE) National Consent Policy establishes the national guidance in respect of DNACPR decisions, and this was supplemented by HSE Guidance...
Limited knowledge has been found on the policies of dementia prevention and control from low- and middle-income (LMIC) countries. This study aims to provide comprehensive evidence of policy progress regarding dementia prevention and control in mainland China by scoping review on the basis of seven priority areas proposed in The Global Action Plan on the Public Health Response to...
The Canadian Centre on Substance Use and Addiction (CCSA) has a mandate to provide national leadership in evidence-informed analysis and knowledge mobilization to advance solutions that reduce substance-related harms. Doing this work effectively requires an understanding of the needs, priorities, perspectives and ideologies of multiple groups. Partnerships across various sectors...
Current research ethics frameworks that oversee health and social care research, in the United Kingdom and internationally, originated in biomedical research, having positivist underpinnings and an orientation towards experimental research. Limitations of these frameworks have been extensively documented including with regard to health and social care research that adopts...
Healthcare insurance is one of the strategies to achieving universal health coverage and reduce health care inequality among rich and poor households. In line with this goal, the Ethiopian government launched a community-based health insurance program in 2011 to protect rural households and informal workers from catastrophic out-of-pocket medical expenditure that would increase...
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic highlighted the crucial role of robust health research systems (HRSs) in supporting effective public health responses. Understanding the responses and lessons learned from HRS during the pandemic is vital for future preparedness. This environmental scan examined high income Countries with a HRS that responded to the COVID-19...
Long coronavirus disease (COVID) presents a significant health challenge. Long-term monitoring is critical to support understanding of the condition, service planning and evaluation. We sought to identify and examine longitudinal health data collected on long COVID to inform potential decisions in England regarding the rationale for data collection, the data collected, the...
The COVID-19 pandemic presented policymakers with time-sensitive decision problems and a rapidly increasing volume of research, not all of which was robust, or relevant to local contexts. A bespoke evidence review process supporting stakeholder engagement was developed as part of the Wales COVID-19 Evidence Centre (WCEC), which could flexibly react to the needs of decision-makers...
Globally, health and social care systems have been responding to the demand for better integrated service delivery to tackle complex public health and socioeconomic challenges. Similarly, services in the United Kingdom strive for comprehensive, person-centred care to support health equity and improved quality of life. This study took place in Blackpool and the Fylde Coast, United...
Countries, especially developing countries, are prone to economic crises, which are the consequences of various crises, including pandemics, climate crises, armed conflicts and migration. Therefore, policy-makers need a guiding framework for policy-making against the economic crisis that contributes to health system resilience. This study aimed to provide a holistic framework...
Heterogeneity in implementing essential evidence-based early intervention for psychosis services (EIS) components persists despite existing fidelity standards/guidelines in many countries. Rapid-learning health systems (RLHS) may remedy these challenges, improving service delivery through systematic data collection, analysis, feedback and capacity-building activities. SARPEP...
Use of evidence to inform health policy and planning decisions is important to ensure effective, efficient and equitable interventions, yet there has been little examination of decentralized, regional health bodies. This study aimed to examine the extent, purposes and sources of evidence used by Australian Primary Health Networks (PHNs) to inform regional primary health care...
Excessive salt consumption has been linked with the emergence of hypertension, which further leads to cardiovascular disease development among other medical conditions. This has resulted in leading world institutions such as the WHO coming up with relevant plans to minimize its use. Lower–middle-income countries (LMICs) have greatest burden of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs...
There are few examples of public health programmes rooted in system dynamics methodology. The aim of this paper was to broaden the evidence-base on the implementation and evaluation of a system dynamics programme for obesity prevention, using the Lifestyle Innovations based on youth’s Knowledge and Experience (LIKE) Programme as a case study. In LIKE, system dynamics principles...
Engaging knowledge users in health research is accelerating in Canada. Our objective was to examine perceptions of partnered health research among individuals involved in funded Canadian partnered health research projects between 2011 and 2019. We invited 2155 recipients of 1153 funded projects to answer a questionnaire probing project characteristics and perceptions of partnered...
The medical research community widely endorses the importance of ensuring that research outputs are relevant and accessible to knowledge users, as well as the value of engaging the latter in the conduct of research to achieve these goals. However, it appears these principles are reflected in actual medical research practices to a limited extent. To better understand this...
The use of real-world data is established in post-authorization regulatory processes such as pharmacovigilance of drugs and medical devices, but is still frequently challenged in the pre-authorization phase of medicinal products. In addition, the use of real-world data, even in post-authorization steps, is constrained by the availability and heterogeneity of real-world data and...