Climate for evidence informed health system policymaking in Cameroon and Uganda before and after the introduction of knowledge translation platforms: A structured review of governmental policy documents

Health Research Policy and Systems

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Ongolo Zogo, Pierre ^a,d   Lavis, John N ^b   Tomson, Goran ^c   Sewankambo, Nelson K ^a  

^a MAKERERE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF HEALTH SCIENCES   (Uganda)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^d UNIVERSITY OF YAOUNDÉ I   (Cameroon)

Author keywords

Cameroon; Climate for evidence informed health system policymaking; Content analysis; Governance; Health systems; Knowledge translation platform; Low and middle income countries; Policy sciences analytical framework; Structured documentary review; Uganda

Indexed keywords

BUDGET; CAMEROON; CLIMATE; CONTENT ANALYSIS; GOVERNMENT; HUMAN; MIDDLE INCOME COUNTRY; MONITORING; POVERTY; PUBLIC HEALTH; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; STATISTICS; SYNTHESIS; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; THEMATIC ANALYSIS; UGANDA; AFRICA; EPIDEMIOLOGY; EVALUATION STUDY; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; MANAGEMENT; TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH;

AFRICA; CAMEROON; EVALUATION STUDIES AS TOPIC; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HEALTH POLICY; HUMANS; POLICY MAKING; TRANSLATIONAL MEDICAL RESEARCH; UGANDA;

EID: 84989162470     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14784505     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1478-4505-13-2     Document Type: Article

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