Troubling the boundaries

Overcoming methodological challenges in a multi-sectoral and multi-jurisdictional HIV/HCV policy scoping review

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ID12889164
AuthorsKathleen A Hare (0000-0001-8542-4416, Dalhousie University, corresponding author), Anik Dubé (0000-0002-8808-109X, Université de Moncton), Zack Marshall (0000-0003-2315-3512, Memorial University of Newfoundland), Jacqueline Gahagan (0000-0001-6483-7916, Dalhousie University), Gregory E Harris (Memorial University of Newfoundland), Maryanne Tucker (Memorial University of Newfoundland), Margaret Dykeman (University of New Brunswick), Jo-Ann Macdonald (0000-0001-9451-2709, University of Prince Edward Island)
Year2015
Volume12
Issue2
Pages217-233
Publication date2015-07-14
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueEvidence & Policy (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1744-2648 • E-ISSN: 1744-2656
PublisherPolicy Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1332/174426415x14365286808816
OpenAlexW2791426219
LanguageEN
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Policy scoping reviews are an effective method for generating evidence-informed policies. However, when applying guiding methodological frameworks to complex policy evidence, numerous, unexpected challenges can emerge. This paper details five challenges experienced and addressed by a policy trainee-led, multi-disciplinary research team, while conducting a scoping review of youth Human Immunodeficiency Virus and Hepatitis C primary and secondary prevention policies, which occurred across and within sectors and jurisdictions in Atlantic Canada. How these challenges were addressed is described, as are suggestions for how the lessons learned may provide guidance to other policy scoping reviews. Implications for future directions are also discussed

Discipline · Economics · Engineering ethics · Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV · Management science · Political science · Public relations · Engineering · Evaluation and Performance Assessment · Health Policy Implementation Science · Medicine · Virology

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