"The knowledge increasingly becomes less relevant with the technology we give them to navigate around the area… They will have an app on their phone which will navigate to the restaurant, and then from the restaurant out to the customer, giving them every opportunity to maintain the same speed, and the same number of deliveries that they do in their existing area".
Characteristics of the user, such as skills or knowledge, may be perceived as less relevant when the technology itself - objectively or subjectively- fails.
Ultimately, the effectiveness of a previous treatment was, broadly speaking, less relevant to the current decision-making process than the knowledge and understanding of the treatment techniques and interpersonal approaches gained by these experiences.
Specialized knowledge is needed to distinguish more relevant from less relevant factors, to interpret empirical evidence, and distinguish more likely from less likely explanations.
Given the manifold ways in which people acquire knowledge, where ones degree is from will become less relevant in the future.
15 Centralised (health system) structures were particularly underused as sources for 'principles' knowledge and were reported as less accessible and less relevant to the local context.
Then we're left to suffer the consequences of being led by people who possess stunningly little relevant knowledge of what they're doing (and in the case of ed policy, even less inclination to listen to those who do).
If many low and middle-income countries lack access to the tools and knowledge to participate effectively, the networks are rendered less significant to the global response and less relevant to their own needs.
This way of thinking about effectiveness may be less relevant in relation to EFHIA, and HIA in general, because EFHIA is an intervention that attempts to influence attitudes, knowledge, decisions and implementation [ 74, 110].
The relevant knowledge accumulated in the intervening 15 years, which we have tried to summarize in this review, is nothing less than astounding.
