ArticleThe Pan African medical journal2013
Research priority setting for health policy and health systems strengthening in Nigeria: the policymakers and stakeholders perspective and involvement.
Article in The Pan African medical journal, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 21 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
21 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Research Priorities for Human Immunodeficiency Virus and Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome in Iran: A Mixed-Methods Study Combining a Systematic Review and Delphi Consensus Approach.Iranian journal of medical sciences · 2026Pooled it
- Prioritizing policy issues for knowledge translation: a critical interpretive synthesis.Global health research and policy · 2025Pooled it
- Model rural health research units in India: A research priority setting exercise.The Indian journal of medical research · 2025Article
- Factors Influencing the Implementation of a Disability Package for Children with Developmental Disabilities: A Policy Analysis.Acta medica Philippina · 2025Article
- Challenges and Strategies in Pediatric Critical Care: Insights From Low-Resource Settings.Global pediatric health · 2024Review
- Prioritization criteria in policies and management of human resources for health: a proposal for a validated methodology.Revista panamericana de salud publica = Pan American journal of public health · 2024Article
- Health Research Priority Agenda for Ministry of Health, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia from 2020 to 2025.Journal of epidemiology and global health · 2022Article
- Approaches to prioritising primary health research: a scoping review.BMJ global health · 2022Article
- Methods for Identifying Health Research Gaps, Needs, and Priorities: a Scoping Review.Journal of general internal medicine · 2022Article
- [Health research in Madagascar: state-of-the-art, challenges and perspectives].The Pan African medical journal · 2021Article
- Outcome of capacity building intervention for malaria vector surveillance, control and research in Nigerian higher institutions.Malaria journal · 2018Article
- The quest for a framework for sustainable and institutionalised priority-setting for health research in a low-resource setting: the case of Zambia.Health research policy and systems · 2018Article
- Health Priorities in French-Speaking Swiss Cantons.International journal of health policy and management · 2018Article
- Research capacity building integrated into PHIT projects: leveraging research and research funding to build national capacity.BMC health services research · 2017Article
- The SPARK Tool to prioritise questions for systematic reviews in health policy and systems research: development and initial validation.Health research policy and systems · 2017Article
- An assessment of policymakers' engagement initiatives to promote evidence informed health policy making in Nigeria.The Pan African medical journal · 2017Review
- Health research priority setting in Zambia: a stock taking of approaches conducted from 1998 to 2015.Health research policy and systems · 2016Article
- An institutional approach to support the conduct and use of health policy and systems research: The Nodal Institute in the Eastern Mediterranean Region.Health research policy and systems · 2015Article
- Learning lessons from operational research in infectious diseases: can the same model be used for noncommunicable diseases in developing countries?Advances in medical education and practice · 2014Review
- Managing Immunological High Risk Kidney Transplant Patients In Nigeria, A Microcosm Of Resource-Constrained Setting; Evidence And Practice.Nigerian medical journal : journal of the Nigeria Medical AssociationReview
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
6 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
introductionNigeria is one of the low and middle income countries (LMICs) facing severe resource constraint, making it impossible for adequate resources to be allocated to the health sector. Priority setting becomes imperative because it guides investments in health care, health research and respects resource constraints. The objective of this study was to enhance the knowledge and understanding of policymakers on research priority setting and to conduct a research priority setting exercise.
methodsA one-day evidence-to-policy research priority setting meeting was held. The meeting participants included senior and middle level policymakers and key decision makers/stakeholders in the health sector in Ebonyi State southeastern Nigeria. The priorities setting meeting involved a training session on priority setting process and conduction of priority setting exercise using the essential national health research (ENHR) approach. The focus was on the health systems building blocks (health workforce; health finance; leadership/governance; medical products/technology; service delivery; and health information/evidence).
resultsOf the total of 92 policymakers invited 90(97.8%) attended the meeting. It was the consensus of the policymakers that research should focus on the challenges of optimal access to health products and technology; effective health service delivery and disease control under a national emergency situation; the shortfalls in the supply of professional personnel; and the issues of governance in the health sector management.
conclusionResearch priority setting exercise involving policymakers is an example of demand driven strategy in the health policymaking process capable of reversing inequities and strengthening the health systems in LMICs.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.