Data on Information Technology Reported by Researchers at University of Washington (Barriers and Facilitators To Data Use for Decision Making: the Experience of the African Health Initiative Partnerships In Ethiopia, Ghana, and Mozambique): Information Technology

2023 FEB 10 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Daily News -- Fresh data on Information Technology are presented in a new report. According to news originating from Seattle, Washington, by NewsRx correspondents, research stated, “Three African Health Initiative (AHI) partnership projects in Ethiopia, Ghana, and Mozambique implemented strategies to improve the quality and evaluation of routinely collected data at the primary health care level and stimulate its use in evidence-based decision making. We compare how these programs designed and carried out data for decision-making (DDM) strategies, elaborate on barriers and facilitators to implementation success, and offer recommendations for future DDM programming.”

Financial supporters for this research include Doris Duke Charitable Foundation (DDCF), Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Development of the National Institutes of Health.

Our news journalists obtained a quote from the research from the University of Washington, “Researchers from each project collaboratively wrote a cross-country protocol based on these objectives. By adapting the Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research (CFIR) through a qualitative theme reduction process, they harmonized lines of inquiry on the design of the respective DDM strategies and the barriers and facilitators of effective implementation. We conducted in-depth interviews and focus group discussions with stakeholders from the primary health care systems in each country, and we carried out multistage, thematic analyses using a deductive lens. Effective implementation of DDM depended on whether implementers felt that DDM was adaptable to context, feasible to trial, and easy to introduce and maintain. The prevailing policy and political environment in the wider health system, learning climate and absorptive capacity for evidence-based change in DDM settings, engagement of external change agents and internal change leaders, and promotion of opportunities and means for team-based reflection and evaluations of what works influenced the success or failure of DDM strategies. Opportunities for team-based capacity building and individual mentorship led to effective DDM programming. External policies and associated incentives bolstered this but occasionally led to unintended consequences.”

According to the news editors, the research concluded: “Leadership engagement and availability of resources to act on recommendations; respond to capacity-building needs; and facilitate collaborations between peers, within hierarchies, and across the local health system proved crucial to DDM, as was encouraging adaptation and opportunities for iterative on-the-job learning.”

For more information on this research see: Barriers and Facilitators To Data Use for Decision Making: the Experience of the African Health Initiative Partnerships In Ethiopia, Ghana, and Mozambique. Global Health Science and Practice, 2022;10. Global Health Science and Practice can be contacted at: Johns Hopkins Center Communication Programs-ccp, Knowledge Success Project, 111 Market Place, Ste 310, Baltimore, Md, United States.

The news correspondents report that additional information may be obtained from Sarah Gimbel, University of Washington, Dept Child Family & Populat Hlth Nursing, Seattle, WA 98195, United States. Additional authors for this research include Colin Baynes, Celso Inguane, Quinhas Femandes, Kenneth Shen, Orvalho Augusto, Steno Tembe, Hibret Alemu Tilahun, Hiwot Belay, Abebaw Gebeyehu, Lisa Hirschhorn, Pearl Kyei, Ayaga A. Bawah, Biruk Abate, Yakob Wondarad, Mohammed Ahmed, Akililu Simanesew, Wondimu Ayele, Debritu Kebede, Gobeze Neagash, Thomas Solomon, Afrah Mohammedsani, J. Koku Awoonor-Williams, Dominic K. Atwearn, S. Patrick Kachur, Mallory Sheff, Elizabeth Jackson, James Phillips, Patrick Asuming, Adriana Biney, Isaias Ramiro, Artur Gremu, Nelia Manaca and Eduardo Mondlane.

The direct object identifier (DOI) for that additional information is: https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-21-00666. This DOI is a link to an online electronic document that is either free or for purchase, and can be your direct source for a journal article and its citation.

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