Document Type
Working Paper
Publication Date
2015
Abstract
This working paper focuses on the emerging knowledge translation literature to provide lessons learned on ways to increase the role that evidence plays in decision-making for family planning and reproductive health policies, programs, and practices. It is part of a larger synthesis of the literature that explores what “evidence” means, what types of evidence policymakers, program managers, and implementers seek when facing implementation decisions, and how evidence relates to other factors that influence decision-making. This paper and the larger synthesis are based on a literature search whose objective was to locate references on evidence-based policy in health or social science, knowledge transfer, translation or utilization for health or social science programs, evidence collected from “intervention studies” in family planning programs, and “implementation science” for family planning and reproductive health. The literature search included databases, individual websites, and reviews of bibliographies. References were limited to 2000–2014 in the database searches; snowballing of materials goes back to the 1990s, and in some cases earlier, to capture earlier literature on research utilization in family planning and seminal writing on research utilization.
Recommended Citation
Hardee, Karen and Kelsey Wright. 2015. "Expanding the role of research evidence in family planning policy, program, and practice decisionmaking," Working paper. Washington, DC: Population Council, The Evidence Project.
DOI
10.31899/rh9.1051
Language
English
Project
The Evidence Project
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Demography, Population, and Ecology Commons, Family, Life Course, and Society Commons, International Public Health Commons