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  1. Maternal death reviews have been utilized in several countries as a means of identifying social and health care quality issues affecting maternal survival. From 2005 to 2009, a standardized community-based mat...

    Authors: Henry D Kalter, Pavitra Mohan, Archana Mishra, Narayan Gaonkar, Akhil B Biswas, Sudha Balakrishnan, Gaurav Arya and Marzio Babille
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2011 9:41
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  2. Funding for research is under pressure to be accountable in terms of benefits and translation of research findings into practice and policy. Primary health care research has considerable potential to improve h...

    Authors: Richard L Reed, Elizabeth C Kalucy, Eleanor Jackson-Bowers and Ellen McIntyre
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2011 9:40
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  3. The objectives of this study are to: (1) profile the production of Health Policy and Systems Research (HPSR) published between 2000 and 2008 in 12 countries in the Eastern Mediterranean Region (EMR): Bahrain, ...

    Authors: Fadi El-Jardali, Diana Jamal, Nour Ataya, Maha Jaafar, Saned Raouf, Claudia Matta, Saja Michael and Colette Smith
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2011 9:39
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  4. Strengthening health research is an important objective for international health organisations, but there has been less attention to support for health research in Europe. We describe the public-health (popula...

    Authors: Cláudia Conceição and Mark McCarthy
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2011 9:38
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  5. Diet, in addition to tobacco, alcohol and physical exercise, is a major factor contributing to chronic diseases in Europe. There is a pressing need for multidisciplinary research to promote healthier food choi...

    Authors: Mark McCarthy, Amina Aitsi-Selmi, Diána Bánáti, Lynn Frewer, Vasant Hirani, Tim Lobstein, Brian McKenna, Zenab Mulla, Giulia Rabozzi, Raluca Sfetcu and Rachel Newton
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2011 9:37
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  6. Innovation through an open source model has proven to be successful for software development. This success has led many to speculate if open source can be applied to other industries with similar success. We a...

    Authors: Christine Årdal, Annette Alstadsæter and John-Arne Røttingen
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2011 9:36
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  7. This commentary describes how the Brazilian Ministry of Health's (MoH) research support policy fulfilled the National Agenda of Priorities in Health Research (NAPHR). In 2003, the MoH started a democratic proc...

    Authors: Leonor Maria Pacheco Santos, Erly Catarina Moura, Rita de Cássia Barradas Barata, Suzanne Jacob Serruya, Marcia Luz da Motta, Flávia Tavares Silva Elias, Antonia Angulo-Tuesta, Ana Patricia de Paula, Gilvania de Melo, Reinaldo Guimarães and Carlos Augusto Grabois Gadelha
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2011 9:35
    Content type: Commentary Published on:

  8. In many countries occupational health care system is in change. Occupational health studies are mainly focused on occupational health substance and content. This study offers new perspectives on municipal OHS ...

    Authors: Hanna Hakulinen, Sari Rissanen and Johanna Lammintakanen
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2011 9:34
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  10. Liver cancer is the fifth most common cancer in men and the seventh for women. Usually because of late diagnosis, the prognosis for liver cancer remains poor, resulting in liver cancer being the third most com...

    Authors: John FP Bridges, Gisselle Gallego and Barri M Blauvelt
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2011 9:32
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  11. There is increasing interest in building the capacity of researchers in low and middle income countries (LMIC) to address their national priority health and health policy problems. However, the number and vari...

    Authors: Shakeel Mahmood, Krishna Hort, Shakil Ahmed, Mohammed Salam and Alejandro Cravioto
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2011 9:31
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  12. The Australian Cancer Trials website (ACTO) was publicly launched in 2010 to help people search for cancer clinical trials recruiting in Australia, provide information about clinical trials and assist with doc...

    Authors: Rachel F Dear, Alexandra L Barratt, Sally Crossing, Phyllis N Butow, Susan Hanson and Martin HN Tattersall
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2011 9:30
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  13. Although measures of knowledge translation and exchange (KTE) effectiveness based on the theory of planned behavior (TPB) have been used among patients and providers, no measure has been developed for use amon...

    Authors: Jennifer A Boyko, John N Lavis, Maureen Dobbins and Nathan M Souza
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2011 9:29
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  14. This analysis reports on Irish regulatory policies for in vitro fertilisation (IVF) from 2004-2009, in the context of membership changes within the Medical Council of Ireland. To achieve this, the current (200...

    Authors: David J Walsh, Mary L Ma and Eric Scott Sills
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2011 9:28
    Content type: Commentary Published on:

  15. The recent emergence of a novel strain of influenza virus with pandemic potential underscores the need for quality surveillance and laboratory services to contribute to the timely detection and confirmation of...

    Authors: Senait Kebede, John B Gatabazi, Pierre Rugimbanya, Therese Mukankwiro, Helen N Perry, Wondimagegnehu Alemu, Jean B Ndihokubwayo, Michael H Kramer and Odette Mukabayire
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2011 9:27
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  16. How to assess the impact of research is of growing interest to funders, policy makers and researchers mainly to understand the value of investments and to increase accountability. Broadly speaking the term "re...

    Authors: Rita Banzi, Lorenzo Moja, Vanna Pistotti, Andrea Facchini and Alessandro Liberati
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2011 9:26
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  17. This article aims to investigate the processes, actors and other influencing factors behind the development and the national scale-up of the One Stop Crisis Centre (OSCC) policy and the subsequent health model...

    Authors: Manuela Colombini, Siti Hawa Ali, Charlotte Watts and Susannah H Mayhew
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2011 9:25
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  18. Clinician dependent costs are the costs of care that are under the discretion of the healthcare provider. These costs include the costs of drugs, tests and investigations, and discretionary outpatient visits a...

    Authors: George Kosimbei, Kara Hanson and Mike English
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2011 9:24
    Content type: Review Published on:

  20. In recent years there has been increasing recognition of the importance of strategic research communication. Health research organisations need to be able to communicate their research effectively to increase ...

    Authors: Annabelle South
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2011 9(Suppl 1):S15
    Content type: Commentary Published on:

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 9 Supplement 1

  21. The Research and Development Division (RDD) of the Ghana Health Service (GHS) has a remit to build research capacity and conduct policy relevant research. By being situated within the GHS, RDD has good access ...

    Authors: John Owusu Gyapong, Richmond Ato Selby and Kwadwo Antwi Anakwah
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2011 9(Suppl 1):S14
    Content type: Commentary Published on:

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 9 Supplement 1

  22. The public health response to sexually transmitted infections, particularly HIV, has been and continues to be overwhelmingly focused on risk, disease and negative outcomes of sex, while avoiding discussion of ...

    Authors: Wendy Knerr and Anne Philpott
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2011 9(Suppl 1):S13
    Content type: Research Published on:

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 9 Supplement 1

  23. This article describes and analyses a research based engagement by a university school of public health in Bangladesh aimed at raising public debate on sexuality and rights and making issues such as discrimina...

    Authors: Sabina Faiz Rashid, Hilary Standing, Mahrukh Mohiuddin and Farah Mahjabeen Ahmed
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2011 9(Suppl 1):S12
    Content type: Research Published on:

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 9 Supplement 1

  25. Research institutions and donor organizations are giving growing attention to how research evidence is communicated to influence policy. In the area of sexual and reproductive health (SRH) and HIV there is les...

    Authors: Olivia Tulloch, Philippe Mayaud, Yaw Adu-Sarkodie, Baafuor Kofi Opoku, Nana Oye Lithur, Eugene Sickle, Sinead Delany-Moretlwe, Mwita Wambura, John Changalucha and Sally Theobald
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2011 9(Suppl 1):S10
    Content type: Research Published on:

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 9 Supplement 1

  26. Swaziland is experiencing the world’s worst HIV and AIDS epidemic. Prevalence rose from four percent of antenatal clinic attendees in 1992 to 42.6 percent in 2004. The Report ‘Reviewing ‘Emergencies’ for Swazi...

    Authors: Alan Whiteside and Fiona E Henry
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2011 9(Suppl 1):S9
    Content type: Research Published on:

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 9 Supplement 1

  27. Communicating the results of randomised controlled trials may present challenges for researchers who have to work with communities and policy-makers to anticipate positive outcomes, while being aware that resu...

    Authors: Sinead Delany-Moretlwe, Jonathan Stadler, Philippe Mayaud and Helen Rees
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2011 9(Suppl 1):S8
    Content type: Research Published on:

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 9 Supplement 1

  28. The mass media have excellent potential to promote good sexual and reproductive health outcomes, but around the world, media often fail to prioritize sexual and reproductive health and rights issues or report ...

    Authors: Rose Ndakala Oronje, Chi-Chi Undie, Eliya Msiyaphazi Zulu and Joanna Crichton
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2011 9(Suppl 1):S7
    Content type: Research Published on:

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 9 Supplement 1

  29. Several frameworks have been constructed to analyse the factors which influence and shape the uptake of evidence into policy processes in resource poor settings, yet empirical analyses of health policy making ...

    Authors: Eleanor Hutchinson, Justin Parkhurst, Sam Phiri, Di M Gibb, Nathaniel Chishinga, Benson Droti and Susan Hoskins
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2011 9(Suppl 1):S6
    Content type: Research Published on:

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 9 Supplement 1

  30. Observational epidemiological and biological data indicate clear synergies between Herpes simplex virus type 2 (HSV-2) and HIV, whereby HSV-2 enhances the potential for HIV acquisition or transmission. In 2001...

    Authors: H Burris, J Parkhurst, Y Adu-Sarkodie and P Mayaud
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2011 9(Suppl 1):S5
    Content type: Research Published on:

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 9 Supplement 1

  31. Sexual and Reproductive Health (SRH) and HIV issues are often controversial and neglected, leading to challenges with engaging policy actors. Research evidence is complex, posing further challenges for ensurin...

    Authors: Joanna Crichton and Sally Theobald
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2011 9(Suppl 1):S4
    Content type: Research Published on:

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 9 Supplement 1

  32. Assessing the impact that research evidence has on policy is complex. It involves consideration of conceptual issues of what determines research impact and policy change. There are also a range of methodologic...

    Authors: Andy Sumner, Jo Crichton, Sally Theobald, Eliya Zulu and Justin Parkhurst
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2011 9(Suppl 1):S3
    Content type: Review Published on:

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 9 Supplement 1

  33. This commentary introduces the HARPS supplement on getting research into policy and practice in sexual and reproductive health (SRH). The papers in this supplement have been produced by the Sexual Health and H...

    Authors: Sally Theobald, Olivia Tulloch, Joanna Crichton, Kate Hawkins, Eliya Zulu, Philippe Mayaud, Justin Parkhurst, Alan Whiteside and Hilary Standing
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2011 9(Suppl 1):S2
    Content type: Introduction Published on:

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 9 Supplement 1

  34. The UK Department for International Development (DFID) is committed to investing in research to combat poverty, reduce high mortality and morbidity in resource poor contexts and support progress towards meetin...

    Authors: C Whitty and S Kinn
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2011 9(Suppl 1):S1
    Content type: Foreword Published on:

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 9 Supplement 1

  35. In Tanzania, many people seek malaria treatment from retail drug sellers. The National Malaria Control Program identified the accredited drug dispensing outlet (ADDO) program as a private sector mechanism to s...

    Authors: Edmund Rutta, Bryceson Kibassa, Brittany McKinnon, Jafary Liana, Romuald Mbwasi, Wilson Mlaki, Martha Embrey, Michael Gabra, Elizabeth Shekalaghe, Suleiman Kimatta and Hiiti Sillo
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2011 9:22
    Content type: Research Published on:

  36. Authors: Wuxiang Shi, Virasakdi Chongsuvivatwong, Alan Geater, Hong Zhang, Junhua Zhang, Daniele Brombal, Maria Santonastaso and Giorgio Mario Cortassa
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2011 9:21
    Content type: Erratum Published on:

    The original article was published in Health Research Policy and Systems 2011 9:16

  37. Health insurance schemes have been widely introduced during this last decade in many African countries, which have strived for improvements in health service provision and the promotion of health care utilizat...

    Authors: Shafiu Mohammed, Mohammad N Sambo and Hengjin Dong
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2011 9:20
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  38. It is estimated that more than $130 billion is invested globally into health research each year. Increasingly, there is a need to set priorities in health research investments in a fair and legitimate way, usi...

    Authors: Mark Tomlinson, Micky Chopra, Naeema Hoosain and Igor Rudan
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2011 9:19
    Content type: Research Published on:

  39. To collaborate with consumer and community representatives in the Alcohol and Pregnancy Project from 2006-2008 http://​www.​ichr.​uwa.​edu.​au/​alcoholandpregna​ncy

    Authors: Janet M Payne, Heather A D'Antoine, Kathryn E France, Anne E McKenzie, Nadine Henley, Anne E Bartu, Elizabeth J Elliott and Carol Bower
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2011 9:18
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  40. Approximately half of the countries in the African Region had a mental health policy by 2005, but little is known about quality of mental health policies in Africa and globally. This paper reports the results ...

    Authors: Edwige Faydi, Michelle Funk, Sharon Kleintjes, Angela Ofori-Atta, Joshua Ssbunnya, Jason Mwanza, Caroline Kim and Alan Flisher
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2011 9:17
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  41. The study aimed to examine the effect of household and community characteristics on financial catastrophe and impoverishment due to health payment in Western and Central Rural China.

    Authors: Wuxiang Shi, Virasakdi Chongsuvivatwong, Alan Geater, Junhua Zhang, Hong Zhang and Daniele Brombal
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2011 9:16
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  42. When a new health product becomes available, countries have a choice to adopt the product into their national health systems or to pursue an alternate strategy to address the public health problem. Here, we de...

    Authors: William A Wells and Alan Brooks
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2011 9:15
    Content type: Review Published on:

  43. Despite substantial investment in health capacity building in developing countries, evaluations of capacity building effectiveness are scarce. By analysing projects in Africa that had successfully built sustai...

    Authors: Imelda Bates, Miriam Taegtmeyer, S Bertel Squire, Daniel Ansong, Bertha Nhlema-Simwaka, Amuda Baba and Sally Theobald
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2011 9:14
    Content type: Research Published on:

  44. The National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) was established in 2006 with the aim of creating an applied health research system embedded within the English National Health Service (NHS). NIHR sought to im...

    Authors: Anas El Turabi, Michael Hallsworth, Tom Ling and Jonathan Grant
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2011 9:13
    Content type: Research Published on:

  45. The lack of a mechanism that aligns financial flows for global health research towards public health priorities limits the impact of health research on health and health equity. Collaborative groups of health ...

    Authors: Roderik F Viergever
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2011 9:12
    Content type: Commentary Published on:

  47. The knowledge translation self-assessment tool for research institutes (SATORI) was designed to assess the status of knowledge translation in research institutes. The objective was, to identify the weaknesses ...

    Authors: Jaleh Gholami, Reza Majdzadeh, Saharnaz Nedjat, Sima Nedjat, Katayoun Maleki, Mahnaz Ashoorkhani and Bahareh Yazdizadeh
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2011 9:10
    Content type: Research Published on:

  48. This study is based on a large-scale household survey and in-depth interviews of key informants that was conducted in villages in three counties of two provinces in China. We assess the new decentralized servi...

    Authors: Xiulan Zhang, Pierre Miège and Yurong Zhang
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2011 9:9
    Content type: Research Published on:

  50. We conducted a print media analysis in 44 countries in Africa, the Americas, Asia, and the Eastern Mediterranean in order to understand one dimension of the climate for evidence-informed health systems and to ...

    Authors: Andrew Cheung, John N Lavis, Ali Hamandi, Fadi El-Jardali, Jonathan Sachs and Nelson Sewankambo
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2011 9:7
    Content type: Research Published on:
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