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GLOBALIZATION AND HEALTH
Volume 9, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
BMC
DOI: 10.1186/1744-8603-9-47
Keywords
Patient safety; Global health; Policy-making; Evidence-based practice; Africa; Hospitals
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Strengthening the evidence-policy interface is a well-recognized health system challenge in both the developed and developing world. Brokerage inherent in hospital-to-hospital partnerships can boost relationships between evidence and policy communities and move developing countries towards evidence based patient safety policy. In particular, we use the experience of a global hospital partnership programme focused on patient safety in the African Region to explore how hospital partnerships can be instrumental in advancing responsive decision-making, and the translation of patient safety evidence into health policy and planning. A co-developed approach to evidence-policy strengthening with seven components is described, with reflections from early implementation. This rapidly expanding field of enquiry is ripe for shared learning across continents, in keeping with the principles and spirit of health systems development in a globalized world.
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