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Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2015 13:42
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Health systems research for policy change: lessons from the implementation of rapid assessment protocols for diabetes in low- and middle-income settings
As many challenges exist for access to diabetes care in developing countries, the International Insulin Foundation developed a Rapid Assessment tool and implemented this approach to identify barriers to care a...
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An institutional approach to support the conduct and use of health policy and systems research: The Nodal Institute in the Eastern Mediterranean Region
The use of health policy and systems research (HPSR) to support decision making in health systems is limited in the Eastern Mediterranean Region (EMR). This is partly due to the lack of effective initiatives t...
Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2015 13:40 -
From market access to patient access: overview of evidence-based approaches for the reimbursement and pricing of pharmaceuticals in 36 European countries
Coverage decisions determining the benefit baskets of health systems have been increasingly relying on evidence regarding patient benefit and costs. Relevant structures, methodologies, and processes have espec...
Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2015 13:39 -
Government and charity funding of cancer research: public preferences and choices
It is unclear how the public would respond to changes in government decisions about how much to spend on medical research in total and specifically on major disease areas such as cancer. Our aim was to elicit ...
Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2015 13:38 -
Impact of NIHR HTA Programme funded research on NICE clinical guidelines: a retrospective cohort
It is vitally important that there is a connection between health research and clinical practice. Indications as to the impact of the research on evidence-based practice and policy can be obtained by tracking ...
Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2015 13:37 -
Conditions for sustainability of Academic Collaborative Centres for Public Health in the Netherlands: a mixed methods design
Contemporary research should increasingly be carried out in the context of application. Nowotny called this new form of knowledge production Mode-2. In line with Mode-2 knowledge production, the Dutch governme...
Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2015 13:36 -
Using conjoint analysis to develop a system of scoring policymakers’ use of research in policy and program development
The importance of utilising the best available research evidence in the development of health policies, services, and programs is increasingly recognised, yet few standardised systems for quantifying policymak...
Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2015 13:35 -
INA-RESPOND: a multi-centre clinical research network in Indonesia
Nationally representative observational and translational research is needed to address the public health challenges in Indonesia due to the geographic disparity, recently decentralized health system, and dive...
Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2015 13:34 -
Communities of practice for supporting health systems change: a missed opportunity
Communities of practice (CoPs) have been used in the health sector to support professional practice change. However, little is known about how CoPs might be used to influence a system that requires change at a...
Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2015 13:33 -
Current status on health sciences research productivity pertaining to Angola up to 2014
Health research driven by the healthcare demands of the population can provide an informative evidence base to support decision-making processes on health policies, programmes, and practices. This paper survey...
Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2015 13:32 -
Introduction of male circumcision for HIV prevention in Uganda: analysis of the policy process
Health policy analysis is important for all health policies especially in fields with ever changing evidence-based interventions such as HIV prevention. However, there are few published reports of health polic...
Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2015 13:31 -
Approaches and impact of non-academic research capacity strengthening training models in sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review
Research is essential to identify and prioritize health needs and to develop appropriate strategies to improve health outcomes. In the last decade, non-academic research capacity strengthening trainings in sub...
Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2015 13:30 -
Applying knowledge translation tools to inform policy: the case of mental health in Lebanon
Many reform efforts in health systems fall short because the use of research evidence to inform policy remains scarce. In Lebanon, one in four adults suffers from a mental illness, yet access to mental healthc...
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Industry-sponsored clinical research outside high-income countries: an empirical analysis of registered clinical trials from 2006 to 2013
Industry-sponsored clinical trials, in the past performed almost exclusively in more developed countries, now often recruit participants globally. However, recruitment from outside high-income countries may no...
Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2015 13:28 -
The role of policy actors and contextual factors in policy agenda setting and formulation: maternal fee exemption policies in Ghana over four and a half decades
Development of health policy is a complex process that does not necessarily follow a particular format and a predictable trajectory. Therefore, agenda setting and selecting of alternatives are critical process...
Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2015 13:27 -
Utilization of research findings for health policy making and practice: evidence from three case studies in Bangladesh
In striving to contribute towards improved health outcomes, health research institutions generate and accumulate huge volumes of relevant but often underutilized data. This study explores activities undertaken...
Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2015 13:26 -
On-going collaborative priority-setting for research activity: a method of capacity building to reduce the research-practice translational gap
International policy suggests that collaborative priority setting (CPS) between researchers and end users of research should shape the research agenda, and can increase capacity to address the research-practic...
Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2015 13:25 -
Exploring the perspectives and preferences for HTA across German healthcare stakeholders using a multi-criteria assessment of a pulmonary heart sensor as a case study
Health technology assessment and healthcare decision-making are based on multiple criteria and evidence, and heterogeneous opinions of participating stakeholders. Multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA) offers...
Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2015 13:24 -
Capacity for conducting systematic reviews in low- and middle-income countries: a rapid appraisal
Systematic reviews of research are increasingly recognised as important for informing decisions across policy sectors and for setting priorities for research. Although reviews draw on international research, t...
Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2015 13:23 -
Using conjoint analysis to develop a system to score research engagement actions by health decision makers
Effective use of research to inform policymaking can be strengthened by policymakers undertaking various research engagement actions (e.g., accessing, appraising, and applying research). Consequently, we devel...
Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2015 13:22 -
Assessing the implementation and influence of policies that support research and innovation systems for health: the cases of Mozambique, Senegal, and Tanzania
Without good policies it will be difficult to provide guidance to research and innovation systems. However, policies need to be followed through and implemented to have the desired effect. We studied the polic...
Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2015 13:21 -
Actors involved in the regulation of clinical research: comparison of Finland to England, Canada, and the USA
The relevance and quantity of clinical research has caused concern and regulation is claimed to hinder clinical research. This paper compares clinical research regulations in Finland to those of England, Canad...
Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2015 13:20 -
Evidence to inform intersectoral policies: a comparison of health and transport sector evidence in support of road traffic injury prevention
Health is influenced by determinants beyond the traditional conception of the health sector. Increasingly, global actors are targeting policymakers at global and national levels to take an intersectoral approa...
Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2015 13:19 -
A narrative review of research impact assessment models and methods
Research funding agencies continue to grapple with assessing research impact. Theoretical frameworks are useful tools for describing and understanding research impact. The purpose of this narrative literature ...
Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2015 13:18 -
Policy context and narrative leading to the commissioning of the Australian Indigenous Burden of Disease study
Burden of disease (BoD) studies have been conducted in numerous international settings since the early 1990’s. Two national BoD studies have been undertaken in Australia, in 1998 and 2003, although neither stu...
Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2015 13:17 -
A systematic review of implementation frameworks of innovations in healthcare and resulting generic implementation framework
Implementation science and knowledge translation have developed across multiple disciplines with the common aim of bringing innovations to practice. Numerous implementation frameworks, models, and theories hav...
Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2015 13:16 -
Evaluation as evolution: a Darwinian proposal for health policy and systems research
Health systems are complex and health policies are political. While grand policies are set by politicians, the detailed implementation strategies which influence the shape and impact of these policies are dele...
Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2015 13:15 -
Setting research priorities across science, technology, and health sectors: the Tanzania experience
Identifying research priorities is key to innovation and economic growth, since it informs decision makers on effectively targeting issues that have the greatest potential public benefit. As such, the process ...
Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2015 13:14 -
Barriers and opportunities for enhancing patient recruitment and retention in clinical research: findings from an interview study in an NHS academic health science centre
In the UK, the recruitment of patients into clinical research is a national health research and development policy priority. There has been limited investigation of how national level factors operate as barrie...
Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2015 13:8 -
How does context influence performance of community health workers in low- and middle-income countries? Evidence from the literature
Community health workers (CHWs) are increasingly recognized as an integral component of the health workforce needed to achieve public health goals in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Many factors inte...
Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2015 13:13 -
Health research improves healthcare: now we have the evidence and the chance to help the WHO spread such benefits globally
There has been a dramatic increase in the body of evidence demonstrating the benefits that come from health research. In 2014, the funding bodies for higher education in the UK conducted an assessment of resea...
Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2015 13:12 -
Developing and refining the methods for a ‘one-stop shop’ for research evidence about health systems
Policymakers, stakeholders and researchers have not been able to find research evidence about health systems using an easily understood taxonomy of topics, know when they have conducted a comprehensive search ...
Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2015 13:10 -
Informing the establishment of the WHO Global Observatory on Health Research and Development: a call for papers
In May 2013, the WHO Member States requested the WHO to establish a Global Observatory on Health Research and Development (R&D), as part of a strategic work-plan to promote innovation, build capacity, improve ...
Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2015 13:9 -
Global trends in health research and development expenditures – the challenge of making reliable estimates for international comparison
Better estimates of changes in the level and structure of national, regional, and global expenditures on health research and development (R&D) are needed as an important source of information for advancing cou...
Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2015 13:7 -
Dimensions of Learning Organizations Questionnaire (DLOQ) in a low-resource health care setting in Nepal
Knowledge-based organizations, such as health care systems, need to be adaptive to change and able to facilitate uptake of new evidence. To be able to assess organizational capability to learn is therefore an ...
Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2015 13:6 -
Balancing the personal, local, institutional, and global: multiple case study and multidimensional scaling analysis of African experiences in addressing complexity and political economy in health research capacity strengthening
Strengthening health research capacity in low- and middle-income countries remains a major policy goal. The Health Research Capacity Strengthening (HRCS) Global Learning (HGL) program of work documented experi...
Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2015 13:5 -
Feasibility of establishing a biosafety level 3 tuberculosis culture laboratory of acceptable quality standards in a resource-limited setting: an experience from Uganda
Despite the recent innovations in tuberculosis (TB) and multi-drug resistant TB (MDR-TB) diagnosis, culture remains vital for difficult-to-diagnose patients, baseline and end-point determination for novel vacc...
Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2015 13:4 -
Does health intervention research have real world policy and practice impacts: testing a new impact assessment tool
There is a growing emphasis on the importance of research having demonstrable public benefit. Measurements of the impacts of research are therefore needed. We applied a modified impact assessment process that ...
Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2015 13:3 -
Climate for evidence informed health system policymaking in Cameroon and Uganda before and after the introduction of knowledge translation platforms: a structured review of governmental policy documents
There is a scarcity of empirical data on African country climates for evidence-informed health system policymaking (EIHSP) to backup the longstanding reputation that research evidence is not valued enough by h...
Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2015 13:2 -
How long does biomedical research take? Studying the time taken between biomedical and health research and its translation into products, policy, and practice
The time taken, or ‘time lags’, between biomedical/health research and its translation into health improvements is receiving growing attention. Reducing time lags should increase rates of return to such resear...
Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2015 13:1 -
Needs assessment to strengthen capacity in water and sanitation research in Africa: experiences of the African SNOWS consortium
Despite its contribution to global disease burden, diarrhoeal disease is still a relatively neglected area for research funding, especially in low-income country settings. The SNOWS consortium (Scientists Netw...
Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2014 12:68 -
Health systems and policy research evidence in health policy making in Israel: what are researchers’ practices in transferring knowledge to policy makers?
Ensuring the use of research evidence in health system management and policy decisions is an important challenge in this century. Knowledge transfer and exchange (KTE) has emerged as a paradigm to address the ...
Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2014 12:67 -
A systematic review of Health Technology Assessment tools in sub-Saharan Africa: methodological issues and implications
Health technology assessment (HTA) is mostly used in the context of high- and middle-income countries. Many “resource-poor” settings, which have the greatest need for critical assessment of health technology, ...
Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2014 12:66 -
How has child maltreatment surveillance data been used in Canada?
Recently, a survey was performed as part of a larger study at the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) to develop and pilot a series of tools to measure the uptake and use of PHAC-produced or -supported knowl...
Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2014 12:65 -
Are the Norwegian health research investments in line with the disease burden?
The relationship between research funding across therapeutic areas and the burden of disease in Norway has not been investigated. Further, few studies have looked at the association between national research i...
Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2014 12:64 -
How can we establish more successful knowledge networks in developing countries? Lessons learnt from knowledge networks in Iran
Formal knowledge networks are considered among the solutions for strengthening knowledge translation and one of the elements of innovative systems in developing and developed countries. In the year 2000, knowledg...
Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2014 12:63 -
A decade of investments in monitoring the HIV epidemic: how far have we come? A descriptive analysis
The 2001 Declaration of Commitment (DoC) adopted by the General Assembly Special Session on HIV/AIDS (UNGASS) included a call to monitor national responses to the HIV epidemic. Since the DoC, efforts and inves...
Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2014 12:62 -
Public reporting improves antibiotic prescribing for upper respiratory tract infections in primary care: a matched-pair cluster-randomized trial in China
Inappropriate use and overuse of antibiotics is a serious concern in the treatment of upper respiratory tract infections (URTIs), especially in developing countries. In recent decades, information disclosure a...
Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2014 12:61 -
Does knowledge of danger signs of pregnancy predict birth preparedness? A critique of the evidence from women admitted with pregnancy complications
Improved knowledge of obstetric danger signs, birth preparedness practices, and readiness for emergency complications are among the strategies aimed at both enhancing utilization of maternal health services an...
Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2014 12:60
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