Health System Research and Policy Development in Nigeria: the challenges and way forward.

Content Provider	Semantic Scholar
Author	Uneke, Chigozie Jesse Ogbonna, Anayo Ezeoha, Abel Abeh Oyibo, Pg Onwe, Friday Ngwu, Baf
Copyright Year	2008
Abstract	In the vast majority of developing countries particularly in Africa, health systems face a number of challenges including underinvestment, lack of human capacity, lack of public demand, inadequate utilization, and poor dissemination of results. One of the major ways of addressing the challenges of health system and improve human development is through health research with the findings translated into policy. Policymaking context has become highly political and rapidly changing, and depends on a variety of factors, inputs, and relationships. The complex nature of policymaking suggests several key challenges and needs for health policy and systems research. The policy processes should therefore involve understanding not only the mechanics of decisionmaking and implementation, but also more complex underlying practices of policy framing. It is thus pertinent to recognize policy development as political and complex process that proceeds through a set of stages from understanding agenda-setting, to exploring possible problem resolution options, weighing up costs and benefits, decision-making, and finally implementation, possibly followed by evaluation. When analyzing health sector policy it is vital to engage key stakeholders such as the government, health providers, scientists, and the community as well as establishing the mechanism that would enhance accountability at all levels.
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DOI	10.5580/6dd
Volume Number	6
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Alternate Webpage(s)	https://doi.org/10.5580/6dd
Language	English
Access Restriction	Open
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Resource Type	Article