Barriers and facilitators to establishing a national public health observatory

• Main Authors: Shalini Pooransingh, Akenath Misir, Dan Ramdath, Samuel Ramsewak, Susan Jaglal, Cathy Cameron, Vivek Goel
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English; Spanish; Portuguese
• Published: Pan American Health Organization
• Subjects: Public health; health care sector; qualitative research; decision making; data collection; Trinidad and Tobago; West Indies; Medicine; R; Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine; RC955-962; Public aspects of medicine; RA1-1270; Arctic; Trinidad
• Online Access: https://doaj.org/article/28f8fc1dbb6d4d499b210ec30a8e3266

OBJECTIVE: To determine what stakeholders perceive as barriers and facilitators to creating a national public health observatory (PHO) in Trinidad and Tobago. METHODS: A descriptive study was conducted based on 15 key informant interviews carried out from April to September 2013. The key informants...