While the scientific community documents environmental degradation and develops scenarios to identify operational margins of system Earth, less attention is given how decisions are made that steer in one direction or other. We propose use strategy games for this purpose, increasing representation human agency scenario development creating spaces deliberation between different worldviews. Played...

As the complexity of policy problems is increasingly recognized, and participatory approaches gain popularity, workers are applying different methods to engage a wide range stakeholders citizens in development implementation. Alongside burgeoning interest various forms design systems thinking, systemic has emerged as descriptor for practice that integrates dialogue, co-creation sensemaking deci...

There is extensive health and public health literature on the 'evidence-policy gap', exploring the frustrating experiences of scientists trying to secure a response to the problems and solutions they raise and identifying the need for better evidence to reduce policymaker uncertainty. We offer a new perspective by using policy theory to propose research with greater impact, identifying the need...

BACKGROUND Evidence-informed decisions can strengthen health systems, improve health, and reduce health inequities. Despite the Beijing, Montreux, and Bamako calls for action, literature shows that research evidence is underemployed in policymaking, especially in the East Mediterranean region (EMR). Selecting the draft nursing practice law as a case study, this policy analysis exercise aims at ...

BACKGROUND The use of research evidence in health policymaking is an international challenge. Health systems, including that of Israel, are usually characterized by scarce resources and the necessity to make rapid policy decisions. Knowledge transfer and exchange (KTE) has emerged as a paradigm to start bridging the "know-do" gap. The purpose of this study was to explore the views of health sys...