Evidence-based policy-making: The implications of globally-applicable research for context-specific problem-solving in developing countries

Béhague, Dominique P.; Tawiah, Charlotte; Rosato, Mikey; Somé, Télesphore; Morrison, Joanna

doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2009.08.006

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“…We support these points with examples from the work of Behague on global maternal health policy (Behague and Storeng, 2008;Behague et al, 2009) and Sumner and Harpham (2008) on child health. Behague et al (2009) looked at EBPM in fi ve developing countries to explain why it has had limited impact on maternal health policy development and implementation at the national and sub-national levels. They suggest that EBPM's emphasis on uniform methodologies works against disciplinary diversity or addressing context-specifi c problems and that it tends to be used to legitimate rather than inform global policy.…”

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Editorial: As well as the subject: Additional dimensions in development research ethics

Camfield

Palmer-Jones

2013

Progress in Development Studies

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The past decade has seen an increasing emphasis on ethical procedures for international development research, drawing heavily on medical models focused on the protection of subjects (for example, informants, vulnerable groups or those in confl ict/post-disaster situations; see American Anthropological Association [AAA], 2012; Economic and Social Research Council [ESRC], 2010). Despite this, other dimensions of research ethics seem to us to be relatively neglected, namely, obligations to society, funders and employers and peers (development practitioners, policymakers and researchers). These obligations include doing non-trivial, benefi cent and high-quality research. As Iphofen (2009: slide 1) argues, 'all research contains harm, since it is, to varying degrees, intrusive upon the lives of others. But that intrusion can and should be justifi ed in terms of the benefi ts accruing -to individuals, communities and/or societies'. Balancing

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Editorial: As well as the subject: Additional dimensions in development research ethics

Camfield

Palmer-Jones

2013

Progress in Development Studies

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“…[1][2][3][4] Despite the emphasis on EBP and the extensive research that documents its value, many nurses do not use evidence to guide their practice. 5,6 As the EBP movement expands, there is a need for health professional leaders and educators in each country to assess the extent to which health professional students and practitioners are prepared to locate, evaluate, and apply evidence to guide their practice.…”

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Perceptions and Attitudes towards Evidence Based Practice among Nurses and Nursing Students in Nepal

Karki

Acharya

Budhwani

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Kathmandu Univ. Med. J.

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BackgroundAs the evidence based practice (EBP) movement expands, there is a need for health leaders and educators in each country to assess the extent to which health professional students and practitioners are prepared to locate, evaluate, and apply evidence to guide their practice. ObjectiveThe study objective was to explore nurses' and nursing students' perceptions and attitudes towards EBP. MethodThis was a descriptive cross-sectional survey administered to all 273 nurses and nursing students from Nepal who attended an EBP conference. The survey instrument that was used by Majid in Singapore was adapted for use in this study with permission from the author. ResultIn total, 121 nurses participated in the study. The majority (93%) of respondents reported that they had no previous training in EBP. The respondents' perceptions of their EBP knowledge and skills were variable, but most of them demonstrated positive attitudes toward EBP. Respondents identified a number of barriers that limit the implementation of EBP in Nepal. The greatest barriers were lack of time and resources, difficulty understanding research articles and translating the findings to practice, and limited autonomy to change practice based on evidence. ConclusionAlthough respondents had positive attitudes towards EBP, their knowledge and skills were limited and barriers to implementation existed. Nursing faculty can use the findings to guide implementation of EBP into curricula, and nursing administrators and clinicians can use the findings to guide practice to promote EBP. Evidence-based nursing, evidence-based practice, nursing research KEY WORDS

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“…Adams (2013: 55) further illustrates how the imposition of epidemiologic standards of evidence has facilitated the commercialization of knowledge in global health by creating a "platform for the buying and selling of truth and reliability." Perhaps most profoundly, the origins of evidence-based approaches in the global North raise the prospect that their extension to LMICs represents a neo-colonial imposition of Northern priorities on Southern actors (Behague et al 2009). …”

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Ecosystem approaches to health and knowledge-to-action: towards a political ecology of applied health-environment knowledge

Brisbois

Burgos

Barraza

et al. 2017

Journal of Political Ecology

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Political ecology pushes back against the apolitical and ahistorical ecologies frequently found in mainstream scientific accounts of nature and the environment, and has increasingly focused on how scientific knowledge is 'socially constructed.' In this article, we argue for political ecological engagement with the highly influential knowledge-to-action (KTA) movement in science about health and the environment. We introduce KTA using results of a survey conducted under the auspices of a Canada-Latin America-Caribbean 'ecosystem approaches to health' (ecohealth) collaboration, and then narrow our focus to a single illustrative ecohealth project, dealing with the health impacts of small-scale gold mining in southwestern Ecuador. We employ an ecology of knowledge framework for integrating insights from science and technology studies, illustrating the interacting actors, material artifacts, institutions and discourses involved in not only the generation but also the application of health-environment science. The origins of ecohealth research in the Americas reflect interacting epistemological and political factors, as sophisticated, complex systemic analyses of health-environment interactions occurred amidst increasing neoliberalization of knowledge production. Simultaneously, corporate actors such as large mining companies influenced both the distribution of healthdamaging environmental conditions in the Americas, and the ways in which they were studied. This analysis motivates our advocacy of specifically political ecologies of health-environment knowledge, in which inequitable power dynamics and non-human actors are foregrounded in studies of the social production and application of science. The political ecology of knowledge framework that we envision would allow for simultaneous consideration of how societal contexts influence scientific knowledge production, and how the resulting knowledge can be better applied to protect the health of communities facing environmental injustice. Key words: ecohealth; mining; praxis; science and technology studies; knowledge-to-action; Canada; Ecuador Résumé L'écologie politique remet en question las explications apolitiques et anhistoriques fréquemment rencontrées dans les compte-rendu scientifiques sur la nature et l'environnement et met de plus en plus l'accent sur la manière dont la connaissance scientifique est socialement construite. Dans cet article, nous soutenons la pertinence de l'écologie politique pour le mouvement « du savoir à l'action », très influent dans les sciences de la santé de l'environnement. Nous présentons la perspective « du savoir à l'action » en nous appuyant sur les résultats d'une enquête menée dans le cadre d'une collaboration Canada-Amérique latine et Caraïbes sur les approches écosystémiques à la santé (écosanté), pour ensuite concentrer notre attention sur un unique projet écosanté, qui porte sur les effets sur la santé de l'extraction de l'or à petite échelle dans le sud-ouest de l'Équateur. Nous employons un cadre conceptuel d'écologi...

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Evidence-based policy-making: The implications of globally-applicable research for context-specific problem-solving in developing countries

Cited by 104 publications

References 21 publications

Editorial: As well as the subject: Additional dimensions in development research ethics

Editorial: As well as the subject: Additional dimensions in development research ethics

Perceptions and Attitudes towards Evidence Based Practice among Nurses and Nursing Students in Nepal

Ecosystem approaches to health and knowledge-to-action: towards a political ecology of applied health-environment knowledge

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