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Fig. 1 | Health Research Policy and Systems

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From: Agenda setting for essential medicines policy in sub-Saharan Africa: a retrospective policy analysis using Kingdon’s multiple streams model

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PRISMA Flow diagram for study selection: Essential medicines policy under PHC.

An initial search of EMBASE and MEDLINE electronic databases generated 185 studies (90 from EMBASE and 95 from MEDLINE). Eleven (11) policy documents formulated at global level were obtained from a hand searching of United Nations, WHO and UNICEF websites making a total of 196 articles. Out of the 196 articles, 11 duplicates were removed and 189 non-duplicates were retained for further analysis. The following inclusion criteria was applied on the remaining 189 articles a) Published peer reviewed journal study or policy document formulated at global level b) Primary study focus on essential medicines policy under PHC c) Geographical focus on sub-Saharan Africa. Using this inclusion criteria, a total of 129 articles were excluded after title and abstract screening and 60 articles were retained for a further review. After full text screening, all the 60 articles (49 studies and 11 policy documents formulated at global level ) met the inclusion criteria

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