Valéry Ridde and several collaborators of the Chair REALISME, researchers and students, presented some of their work at the Fourth Global Symposium on Health Systems Research (HSR2016) held in Vancouver from November 14th to November 18th, 2016. All our collaborators presentations are available hereunder.
Organized sessions:
- Application and challenges to the use of mixed methods in health systems research.
- Taking results based financing from scheme to system.
- Understanding causes of inequitable coverage of social health protection programs: do knowledge paradigms matter for research and policy ?
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Challenges of improving maternal and child health in Africa: is innovation the solution?
Oral sessions:
- Universal Health Coverage: what does it mean and how should we measure it ?
- Interface between global and national.
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Out of pocket and catastrophic spending on health care: prevalence and prevention.
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Strengthening partnerships to improve knowledge exchange impacts.
Posters:
- Social vulnerabilities: what can we learn from the community-based selection approach to target indigents for free health care in Burkina Faso ?
- Knowledge translation in West Africa: A deliberative dialogue on road traffic injuries in Burkina Faso.
- Sustainability of a results-based financing pilot project: case study in two health districts in Mali.
- An exploratory study assessing psychological distress of the poorest in Burkina Faso: A first step towards understanding mental health needs in West Africa.
- Stratégies visant à accroître la demande de vaccination infantile dans les pays en développement: Révision systématique et méta-analyse.
Application and challenges to the use of mixed methods in health systems research.
Theme: Future learning and evaluation approaches for health system development.
Through a mix of presentations and active group participatory approaches, this session aimed at identifying experiences, challenges, and solutions related to the application of mixed methods protocols in health systems research across a variety of settings in high, low and middle income countries.
With more than 60 participants, this session was a success, and the presentations made during this session are presented below, at the request of the participants.
For references, you can refer to our wikitools here (or here in its french version), as well as the ARPH paper: Pierre Pluye & Quan Nha Hong (2014). Combining the power of stories and the power of numbers: Mixed Methods Research and Mixed Studies Reviews. Annual Review of Public Health, 35:29-45. A webinar on mixed-methods published online by the International Institute for Qualitative Methodology is also available here.
It can be downloaded free of charge here. Please note that this URL is for your own personal use: “Any further/multiple distribution, publication, or commercial usage of this copyrighted material requires submission of a permission request addressed to the Copyright Clearance Center“. The review was submitted to Systematic Reviews (open access journal) but is not published yet.
Taking results based financing from scheme to system.
Theme: Implementing improvement and innovation in health services and systems.
Based on a multi-country research program, this session focuses on systemic enablers and barriers to scale up and integration of Results Based Financing (RBF) programs into national health systems, an area overlooked by impact evaluations. It discusses methodological innovations and empirical research findings and their relevance for policymakers and researchers. Isidore Sieleunou made a presentation about transferring the purchasing role from international to national organizations during the scale-up phase of performance-based financing in Cameroon.
Understanding causes of inequitable coverage of social health protection programs: do knowledge paradigms matter for research and policy ?
Theme: New partnerships and collaborations for health system research and development.
Health systems researchers seek to explain causes of policy success and failure, yet causality is unresolved in social science. We use three knowledge paradigms (positivism, critical realism, social constructionism) to explain inequity in social health protection in India, Senegal and Togo and ask a WHO policymaker whether theory matters. This presentation realised by Emilie Robert, Denis Porignon & Valéry Ridde, seeks to summarize a
Challenges of improving maternal and child health in Africa: is innovation the solution?
Universal Health Coverage: what does it mean and how should we measure it ?
Theme: Equity, rights, gender and ethics: maintaining responsiveness through values-based health systems.
A presentation by Kadidiatou Kadio: “Universal health insurance scheme in Burkina Faso: integrating research results for an inclusive health system.”
Interface between global and national.
Theme: Engaging power and politics in promoting health and public value.
The global, continental, and national adoption of performance-based financing: exploring policymaking in Mali. A presentation by Lara Gautier.
Out of pocket and catastrophic spending on health care: prevalence and prevention.
Strengthening partnerships to improve knowledge exchange impacts.
Social vulnerabilities: what can we learn from the community-based selection approach to target indigents for free health care in Burkina Faso ?
Theme: Equity, rights, gender and ethics: maintaining responsiveness through values-based health systems.
Sub-theme: Learning communities and knowledge translation. Poster by Samiratou Ouedraogo.
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Knowledge translation in West Africa: A deliberative dialogue on road traffic injuries in Burkina Faso.
Theme: New partnerships and collaborations for health system research and development.
Sub-theme: Learning communities and knowledge translation. A poster by Esther Mc Sween-Cadieux.
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Sustainability of a results-based financing pilot project: case study in two health districts in Mali.
A poster by Mathieu Seppey.
An exploratory study assessing psychological distress of the poorest in Burkina Faso: A first step towards understanding mental health needs in West Africa.
A poster by Émilie Pigeon-Gagné.
Stratégies visant à accroître la demande de vaccination infantile dans les pays en développement : Révision systématique et méta-analyse.
