Figure 1 Framework for harnessing herder knowledge for an integrated application of indicators, management decisions in response to assessments and monitoring and policy tools for decision making.
Only a small number of voters favoured the view that scientific information, as presented during the conference, should continue to be used by policy makers for decision making.
Such knowledge is a necessary pre-requisite to perform a reliable cost benefit evaluation of urban sustainability strategies, and provide guidance for policy decision making to maximize benefits and minimize negative impacts.
And this despite gender imbalances having been identified as one of the four key dimensions to understanding health workforce imbalances for policy decision making [ 16].
However, the findings in this study can serve as a reflection of other stakeholders' preferences for policy decision making that may lead to greater acceptance of priority setting decisions.
In the globalised world, the greenhouse gas emission and water consumption are increasingly important indicators for policy and decision making.
Therefore, they are an important tool for policy and decision making processes [ 30].
During the 2009 influenza pandemic, FluSurv-NET provided a crucial source of data for policy and decision making.
The main purpose of health system performance assessment is to provide decision makers with reliable evidence for policy and decision making.
The results can also serve as a reference for setting premium values, and for future policy decision making in other Caribbean countries, particularly those in the Eastern Caribbean, where the same model of health care exists, and the economies are relatively similar.
