Background Although there is a general agreement on the benefits of evidence informed health policy development given resource constraints especially in Low-Income Countries (LICs), the definition of what evidence is, and what evidence is suitable to guide decision-making is still unclear. Our study is contributing to filling this knowledge gap. We aimed to explore health policy actors’ views r...

BACKGROUND In India, 50-65% of the population face difficulties in accessing medicines. The Health Impact Fund (HIF) is a novel proposal whereby pharmaceutical companies would be paid based on the measured global health impact of their drugs. We conducted a key stakeholder analysis to explore access to medicines in India, acceptability of the HIF and potential barriers and facilitators at polic...

BACKGROUND Since 2002, the professional education for Swiss physiotherapists has been upgraded to a tertiary educational level. With this change, the need for research related to professional practice has become more salient. The elaboration of research priorities is seen as a possible way to determine the profession's needs, to help coordinate research collaborations and to address expectation...

This article reviews the consultation process during the development of a local dementia strategy. The processes of involvement by the range of stakeholders involved and how their different views shaped the strategy are considered. Particular attention is paid to the involvement of people with dementia as they are the recipients of the services to be shaped by the strategy and also form the gro...

BACKGROUND Despite a high prevalence of mental health problems among children and adolescents Belgium, like many other Western countries, does not have a clear strategy for the organization of child and adolescent mental healthcare services (CAMHS). METHODS This paper describes stakeholders' views on the organization of CAMHS based on a qualitative study. Ten in-depth interviews with high pro...

ion using a standardised form. It has helped generate an overview of how SPC has been applied to healthcare QI with both breadth and depth—similar to the benefits of thematic analysis reported by investigators reviewing young people’s views on health and health behaviour. In conclusion, this review indicates how SPC has been applied to healthcare QI with substantial benefits to diverse stakehol...

Documenting large scale IT-architectures is a laborious task that is executed by many different stakeholder types. We argue that a major obstacle that keeps stakeholders from keeping models up-todate is inadequate user interfaces for specific stakeholders. In this demo paper we present a novel modeling tool that provides adequate stakeholder views and describe the implementational challenges. T...

Different stakeholders in the design of an enterprise information system have their own view on that design. To help produce a coherent design this paper presents a framework that aids in specifying relations and consistency rules between such views. The contribution of our framework is that it provides a collection of basic concepts. These basic concepts aid in relating viewpoints by providing...

The research on different theories and practice of learning present different views on how to make the delivery of learning and teaching activities more responsive to the complex and changing demands of the different stakeholders. Improving the quality of learning and teaching continues to drive institutions and governments to transform education. The concept of quality in education is complex ...

BACKGROUND As liver cancer incidence and mortality remain high in many parts of Europe, a more comprehensive response is required to reduce the burden. Expert stakeholders should be involved in the design of responses because they have important insights about potentially effective responses and will be affected by policy changes. We aimed to prioritize liver cancer control strategies based on ...