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    Supporting the utilization of community-based primary health care implementation research in Ghana

    Date
    2022-01-19
    Author
    Awoonor-Williams, John Koku
    Phillips, James F.
    Aboba, Mathias
    Vadrevu, Lalitha
    Azasi, Esther
    Tiah, Janet Awopole Yepakeh
    Schmitt, Margaret L.
    Patel, Sneha
    Sheff, Mallory C.
    Kachur, S. Patrick
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    Awoonor-Williams, J.K., Phillips, J.F., Aboba, M., Vadrevu, L., Azasi, E., Tiah, J.A.Y., Schmitt, M.L., Patel, S., Sheff, M.C. and Kachur, S.P. (2022) ‘Supporting the utilization of community-based primary health care implementation research in Ghana’, Health Policy and Planning, 37(3), pp. 420-427.
    Abstract
    Ever since the 1990s, implementation research in Ghana has guided the development of policies and practices that are essential to establishing community-based primary health care. In response to evidence emerging from this research, the Community-based Health Planning and Services (CHPS) policy was promulgated in 1999 to scale-up results. However, during the first decade of CHPS operation, national monitoring showed that its pace of coverage expansion was unacceptably slow. In 2010, the Ghana Health Service launched a five-year plausibility trial of CHPS reform for testing ways to accelerate scale-up. This initiative, known as the Ghana Essential Health Intervention Program (GEHIP), included a knowledge management component for establishing congruence of knowledge generation and flow with the operational system that GEHIP evidence was intended to reform. Four Upper East Region districts served as trial areas while seven districts were comparison areas. Interventions tested means of developing the upward flow of information based on perspectives of district managers, sub-district supervisors, and community-level workers. GEHIP also endeavored to improve procedures for the downward flow and utilization of policy guidelines. Field exchanges were convened for providing national, regional, and district leaders with opportunities for participatory learning about GEHIP implementation innovations. This systems approach facilitated the process of augmenting the communication of evidence with practical field experience. Scientific rigor associated with the production of evidence was thereby integrated into management decision-making processes in ways that institutionalized learning at all levels. The GEHIP knowledge management system functioned as a prototype for guiding the planning of a national knowledge management strategy. A follow-up project transferred its mechanisms from the Upper East Regional Health Administration to the Policy Planning Monitoring and Evaluation Division of the Ghana Health Service in Accra.
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    https://eresearch.qmu.ac.uk/handle/20.500.12289/11687
    Official URL
    https://doi.org/10.1093/heapol/czab156
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