Background There is need to strengthen institutions and mechanisms that can more systematically promote interactions between researchers, policy-makers and other stakeholders who can influence the uptake of research findings. In this article, we report the outcome of a two-way secondment model between Ebonyi State University (EBSU) and Ebonyi State Ministry of Health (ESMoH) in Nigeria as an in...

Background There is increasing interest globally in the use of more rigorous processes to ensure that maternal, newborn, and child health (MNCH) care recommendations are informed by the best available research evidence use. The purpose of this study was to engage Nigerian MNCH policy-makers and other stakeholders to consider issues around research to policy and practice interface and to assess ...

Most deep reinforcement learning algorithms are data inefficient in complex and rich environments, limiting their applicability to many scenarios. One direction for improving data efficiency is multitask learning with shared neural network parameters, where efficiency may be improved through transfer across related tasks. In practice, however, this is not usually observed, because gradients fro...

background: the findings of many studies confirm that obesity includes social stigma. stigma involves several stereotypes that have negative psychosocial effects. the goal of this study was to evaluate the experience of social stigma in obese women with emphasis on their coping strategies. methods: after the interview was done in the department with 24 sleeve female candidate, their narratives ...

background there is increasing interest globally in the use of more rigorous processes to ensure that maternal, newborn, and child health (mnch) care recommendations are informed by the best available research evidence use. the purpose of this study was to engage nigerian mnch policy-makers and other stakeholders to consider issues around research to policy and practice interface and to assess ...

health sector can be directed to a great deal of improvements by formulation of proper policies. however, policy making in human resources, the most important resource, was not regarded as much necessary as the health sector. therefore, this study aimed to compare core stages of policy making in human resources for the health sector (hrh). such a research can be considered as an important step ...

That public health policy and practice should be evidence based is a seemingly uncontroversial claim. Yet governments and citizens routinely reject the best available evidence and prefer policies that reflect other considerations and concerns. The most common explanations of this paradox emphasise scientific disagreement, the power of 'politics', or the belief that scientists and policymakers l...

background the lack of effective use of research evidence in policy-making is a major challenge in most low- and middle-income countries (lmics). there is need to package research data into effective policy tools that will help policy-makers to make evidence-informed policy regarding infectious diseases of poverty (idp). the objective of this study was to assess the usefulness of training works...