Background Good decision-making requires gathering and using sufficient information. Several knowledge translation platforms have been introduced in Burkina Faso to support evidence-informed decision-making. One of these is the rapid response service for health. This platform aims to provide quick access for policy-makers in Burkina Faso to highquality research evidence about health systems. Th...

The past three decades of policy process studies have seen the emergence a clear intellectual lineage with regard to complexity. Implicitly or explicitly, scholars employed complexity theory examine intricate dynamics collective action in political contexts. However, methodological counterparts theory, such as computational methods, are rarely used and, even if they are, often detached from est...

this paper presents a discrete-time single-server finite buffer n threshold policy queue with renewal input and discretemarkovian service process. the server terminates service whenever the system becomes empty, and recommencesservice as soon as the number of waiting customers in the queue is n. we obtain the system-length distributionsat pre-arrival and arbitrary epochs using the supplementary...

Policies to promote public health are based on trust. There is a danger that public trust may be lost, especially where policies are seen to be influenced by vested interests or conflict with available evidence. Although trust in public health policies in the UK is high, some commentators have questioned recent responses to the threat of pandemic flu, suggesting that they may be driven, in part...

This article examines rural-urban migration, its role in poverty alleviation in Thailand, and policy implications. The empirical research literature suggests that the poorest tend be left behind by wealthier migrants moving to urban areas. The youngest tend to migrate. The impact of remittances tends to appear more positive in international migration, but the impact of remittances among rura...

Public health is intimately related to social justice, which is why practice and research in the field seek to improve the social determinants of health. Despite the best intentions of those working in public health, however, some policies and practices inadvertently further disadvantage pre-existing marginalized populations. In this paper, we provide a diagnosis of possible reasons why this ph...