Implementation research is crucial to countries’ efforts to strengthen learning health systems

Ghaffar, Abdul; Swaminathan, Soumya; Sheikh, Kabir; Al-Mandhari, Ahmed; Jhalani, Manoj; Sambo, Boureima Hama; Jakab, Z.

doi:10.1093/heapol/czaa119

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“…It manifests in failure to minimise the need for subsidiary units, that is, by not investing in platforms that allow primary units to learn for themselves, circulate learning from small wins and connect to more of themselves (eg, through routine data, deliberation or after-action review). 58 To limit such injustices, it may be necessary to mandate that any help provided by subsidiary units should be provided in a way that does not take away from (but instead reinforces) the capacity and opportunity of primary units to learn for themselves.…”

Section: Injustices In the Uses Of Knowledgementioning

confidence: 99%

The uses of knowledge in global health

Abimbola

2021

BMJ Glob Health

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If …the problem of society is mainly one of rapid adaptation to changes in the particular circumstances of time and place… [then] the ultimate decisions must be left to the people who are familiar with these circumstances, who know directly of the relevant changes and of the resources immediately available to meet them. We cannot expect that this problem will be solved by first communicating all this knowledge to a central board which, after integrating all knowledge, issues its orders. We must solve [the problem] by some form of de-centralization… But the '[people] on the spot' cannot decide solely on the basis of [their] limited but intimate knowledge of the facts of [their] immediate surroundings. There still remains the problem of communicating to [them] such further information as [they need] to fit [their] decisions into the whole pattern of changes of the larger […] system. How much knowledge [do they] need to do so successfully? Which of the events which happen beyond the horizon of [their] immediate knowledge are of relevance to [their] immediate decision, and how much of them need [they] know? -F. A. Hayek (1899-1992) 1

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Section: Injustices In the Uses Of Knowledgementioning

confidence: 99%

The uses of knowledge in global health

Abimbola

2021

BMJ Glob Health

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“…These strategies should encourage the involvement of policy makers in setting implementation research priorities, providing funding for researcher-practitioner collaborations to conduct research based on these priorities, and ensuring the dissemination and application of these findings in policy and practice. 27 Lack of involvement of local policy makers may perpetuate the power asymmetries that have traditionally characterized global partnerships by allowing international researchers rather than local policy makers to set research priorities. 28,29 In addition, participants expressed a desire for more opportunities to train policy makers in their settings to help them understand implementation research can provide practitioners with actionable strategies for effective dissemination and scale-up.…”

Section: Theme 1: Policy Makers In Lmics Do Not Set Research Agendas ...mentioning

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Diversifying Implementation Science: A Global Perspective

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Glob Health Sci Pract

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“…The city lockdown intended to change behaviours and urge people to stay at home by discouraging travels and family gatherings. Behavioural change is crucial for improving pandemic outcomes (Michie and West, 2020; and can be effective if policies are derived from evidence-based principles of implementation science (Michie and Prestwich, 2010;Cane et al, 2012;Hirschhorn et al, 2020;Ghaffar et al, 2020) and informed by systems thinking (Carey et al, 2015;Durski et al, 2020aDurski et al, , 2020b.…”

Section: Dynamics Between Policy Interventions People's Motivations A...mentioning

confidence: 99%