The Bureau of Integrated Rural Development (BIRD), Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), has called for deliberate effort to make research a key plank of public health policy planning in the country.<\/p>\n
Dr. Sampson Enyin Edusah, a Senior Research Fellow, said this was the way forward to achieve intended outcomes \u2013 to substantially improve the quality of health of the population.<\/p>\n
\u201cStudies have shown that countries in sub-Saharan African can double their efforts in improving health outcomes if choices of health interventions and policies are based on solid scientific evidence.\u201d<\/p>\n
He was speaking at a day\u2019s dissemination workshop held in Kumasi on evidence-based practice in the health service.<\/p>\n
It was organized by BIRD to aid municipal and district health directors, drawn from across the Ashanti region, to identify and get their priorities right.<\/p>\n
They were taught how to develop realistic, acceptable and effective policies, evaluate the impact of interventions and to be responsive to public health emergencies.<\/p>\n
The programme provided the platform to critically examine the extent to which, evidence is used in the nation\u2019s public healthcare delivery system – the value of evidence in public health practice.<\/p>\n
Dr. Edusah indicated that the global shift was now towards increasing reliance on evidence in public health decision-making and said Ghana should not become an exception.<\/p>\n
He said this had become important to bring cost-effectiveness into health programmes implementation.<\/p>\n
He underlined the need for the Ghana Health Service (GHS) to identify and adopt strategies, which had been shown by research to work, to help raise the quality of care.<\/p>\n
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Source: GNA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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