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Rethinking approaches of science, technology, and innovation in healthcare during the COVID-19 pandemic: the challenge of translating knowledge infrastructures to public needs

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak made it clear that despite the potential of science, technology, and innovation (ST&I) to positively impact healthcare systems worldwide, as shown by the rapid ...

Authors: Renan Gonçalves Leonel da Silva, Roger Chammas and Hillegonda Maria Dutilh Novaes

Aiming for quality: a global compass for national learning systems

Transforming a health system into a learning one is increasingly recognized as necessary to support the implementation of a national strategic direction on quality with a focus on frontline experience. The app...

Authors: Diana Sarakbi, Nana Mensah-Abrampah, Melissa Kleine-Bingham and Shams B. Syed

Building the field of food systems research: commentary on a research funder’s role

The Food, Environment, and Health (FEH) program of the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) aims to improve the health of low- and middle-income country populations by generating evidence, innovati...

Authors: Hayley Pelletier, Leah Bleecker, Victoria Sauveplane-Stirling, Erica Di Ruggiero and Daniel Sellen

An evaluation of the Victorian Salt Reduction Partnership’s advocacy strategy for policy change

Public health advocacy strategies facilitate policy change by bringing key health issues to the forefront of public and political discourse, influencing decision-makers and public opinion, and increasing polic...

Authors: Emalie Rosewarne, Michael Moore, Wai-Kwan Chislett, Alexandra Jones, Kathy Trieu and Jacqui Webster

Assessing the performance of a method for case-mix adjustment in the Korean Diagnosis-Related Groups (KDRG) system and its policy implications

To evaluate the performance of the patient clinical complexity level (PCCL) mechanism, which is the patient-level complexity adjustment factor within the Korean Diagnosis-Related Groups (KDRG) patient classifi...

Authors: Sujeong Kim, Byoongyong Choi, Kyunghee Lee, Sangmin Lee and Sukil Kim

Can intersectionality help with understanding and tackling health inequalities? Perspectives of professional stakeholders

The concept of “intersectionality” is increasingly employed within public health arenas, particularly in North America, and is often heralded as offering great potential to advance health inequalities research...

Authors: Daniel Holman, Sarah Salway, Andrew Bell, Brian Beach, Adewale Adebajo, Nuzhat Ali and Jabeer Butt

The household financial burden of non-communicable diseases in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review

The chronic nature of noncommunicable diseases (NCD) and costs associated with long-term care can result in catastrophic health expenditure for the patient and their household pushing them deeper into poverty ...

Authors: Joseph Kazibwe, Phuong Bich Tran and Kristi Sidney Annerstedt

Understanding the complexity of population health interventions: assessing intervention system theory (ISyT)

Given their inherent complexity, we need a better understanding of what is happening inside the “black box” of population health interventions. The theory-driven intervention/evaluation paradigm is one approac...

Authors: Linda Cambon and François Alla

A 10-year longitudinal evaluation of science policy interventions to promote sex and gender in health research

Over the past decade, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) has implemented multicomponent interventions to increase the uptake of sex and gender in grant applications. Interventions included manda...

Authors: Jenna Haverfield and Cara Tannenbaum

A cross-country comparison of malaria policy as a premise for contextualized appropriation of foreign aid in global health

Foreign aid continues to play an essential role in health sector development in low-resource countries, particularly in terms of providing a vital portion of their health expenditures. However, the relationshi...

Authors: Tomas Jezek and Oluwaseun Adebayo Bamodu

Where is critical analysis of power and positionality in knowledge translation?

In Canada, the Eurocentric epistemological foundations of knowledge translation (KT) approaches and practices have been significantly influenced by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) KT definiti...

Authors: Chloe Crosschild, Ngoc Huynh, Ismalia De Sousa, Eunice Bawafaa and Helen Brown

Policy options to increase motivation for improving evidence-informed health policy-making in Iran

Current incentive programmes are not sufficient to motivate researchers and policy-makers to use research evidence in policy-making. We conducted a mixed-methods design to identify context-based policy options...

Authors: Haniye Sadat Sajadi, Reza Majdzadeh, Elham Ehsani-Chimeh, Bahareh Yazdizadeh, Sima Nikooee, Ata Pourabbasi and John Lavis

Cross-cultural adaption and psychometric investigation of the German version of the Evidence Based Practice Attitude Scale (EBPAS-36D)

The implementation of evidence-based practice (EBP) in mental health care confers many benefits to patients, and research into factors facilitating the implementation of EBP is needed. As an important factor a...

Authors: Katharina Szota, Jonathan F. B. Thielemann, Hanna Christiansen, Marte Rye, Gregory A. Aarons and Antonia Barke

Correction to: Measuring the impact of the Afordable Care Act Medicaid expansion on access to primary care using an interrupted time series approach

An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via the original article.

Authors: Elizabeth A. Brown, Brandi M. White, Walter J. Jones, Mulugeta Gebregziabher and Kit N. Simpson

Development and validation of a guideline on sexual and reproductive health of breast cancer survivors in Iran: a mixed methods study protocol

Sexual and reproductive health problems significantly decrease quality of life in survivors of breast cancer. The best approach is to provide services according to evidence-based guidelines developed based on ...

Authors: Solmaz Roshandel, Minoor Lamyian, Seyed Ali Azin, Shahpar Haghighat and Eesa Mohammadi

An analysis of the impact of newborn survival policies in Pakistan using a policy triangle framework

Pakistan has made slow progress towards reducing the newborn mortality burden; as a result, it has the highest burden of newborn mortality worldwide. This article presents an analysis of the current policies, ...

Authors: Jamil Ahmed, Carmen Huckel Schneider, Ashraful Alam and Camille Raynes-Greenow

Prioritizing guideline recommendations for implementation: a systematic, consumer-inclusive process with a case study using the Australian Clinical Guidelines for Stroke Management

Implementation of evidence-based care remains a key challenge in clinical practice. Determining “what” to implement can guide implementation efforts. This paper describes a process developed to identify priori...

Authors: Elizabeth A. Lynch, Chris Lassig, Tari Turner, Leonid Churilov, Kelvin Hill and Kirstine Shrubsole

Health research capacity building of health workers in fragile and conflict-affected settings: a scoping review of challenges, strengths, and recommendations

Fragile and conflict-affected settings (FCAS) have a strong need to improve the capacity of local health workers to conduct health research in order to improve health policy and health outcomes. Health researc...

Authors: Rania Mansour, Hady Naal, Tarek Kishawi, Nassim El Achi, Layal Hneiny and Shadi Saleh

Integrated knowledge translation to advance noncommunicable disease policy and practice in South Africa: application of the Exploration, Preparation, Implementation, and Sustainment (EPIS) framework

In response to the “know–do” gap, several initiatives have been implemented to enhance evidence-informed decision-making (EIDM). These include individual training, organizational culture change management, and...

Authors: Nasreen S. Jessani, Anke Rohwer, Bey-Marrie Schmidt and Peter Delobelle

Setting the global research agenda for community-based HIV service delivery through the faith sector

While leading AIDS organizations expect faith and health collaborations to play a crucial role in organizing and scaling up community-based HIV services, it is unclear how this can be realized. Little primary ...

Authors: Martha T. Ndlovu-Teijema, Maarten O. Kok, Sabine L. van Elsland, Hilleen Smeets, David Barstow, Lyn van Rooyen and A. M. van Furth

Contextual differences considered in the Tunisian ADOLOPMENT of the European guidelines on breast cancer screening

Breast cancer is a common disease in Tunisia and is associated with high mortality rates. The “Instance Nationale de l’Evaluation et de l’Accréditation en Santé” (INEAS) and the Tunisian Society of Oncology de...

Authors: Lara A. Kahale, Hella Ouertatani, Asma Ben Brahem, Hela Grati, Mohammed Ben Hamouda, Zuleika Saz-Parkinson and Elie A. Akl

A North–South-South partnership in higher education to develop health research capacity in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: the challenge of finding a common language

Globally, increasing numbers of higher education institutions (HEIs) in non-English-speaking countries have adopted English as a medium of instruction (EMI), because of the perception that this provides opport...

Authors: Christiane Horwood, Sphindile Mapumulo, Lyn Haskins, Vaughn John, Silondile Luthuli, Thorkild Tylleskär, Paulin Mutombo, Ingunn M. S. Engebretsen, Mala Ali Mapatano and Anne Hatløy

How to disseminate national recommendations for physical activity: a qualitative analysis of critical change agents in Germany

Physical activity recommendations are reached by only a small part of the population. A common problem is that research findings on public health-related topics such as physical activity promotion are oftentim...

Authors: Laura Wolbring, Anne Kerstin Reimers, Claudia Niessner, Yolanda Demetriou, Steffen Christian Ekkehard Schmidt, Alexander Woll and Hagen Wäsche

Measuring the impact of the Affordable Care Act Medicaid expansion on access to primary care using an interrupted time series approach

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010, commonly referred to as the Affordable Care Act (ACA), was created to increase access to primary care, improve quality of care, and decrease healthcare c...

Authors: Elizabeth A. Brown, Brandi M. White, Walter J. Jones, Mulugeta Gebregziabher and Kit N. Simpson

Learning from public health and hospital resilience to the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic: protocol for a multiple case study (Brazil, Canada, China, France, Japan, and Mali)

All prevention efforts currently being implemented for COVID-19 are aimed at reducing the burden on strained health systems and human resources. There has been little research conducted to understand how SARS-...

Authors: Valéry Ridde, Lara Gautier, Christian Dagenais, Fanny Chabrol, Renyou Hou, Emmanuel Bonnet, Pierre-Marie David, Patrick Cloos, Arnaud Duhoux, Jean-Christophe Lucet, Lola Traverson, Sydia Rosana de Araujo Oliveira, Gisele Cazarin, Nathan Peiffer-Smadja, Laurence Touré, Abdourahmane Coulibaly…

Systemic factors for enhancing intersectoral collaboration for the operationalization of One Health: a case study in India

One Health is a collaborative, multisectoral, and transdisciplinary approach—working at the local, regional, national, and global levels—with the goal of achieving optimal health outcomes recognizing the inter...

Authors: Sandul Yasobant, Walter Bruchhausen, Deepak Saxena and Timo Falkenberg

Boundary spanning and identity work in the clinical research delivery workforce: a qualitative study of research nurses, midwives and allied health professionals in the National Health Service, United Kingdom

Research nurses, midwives and allied health professionals are members of an important emergent profession delivering clinical research and, in the United Kingdom, have been the focus of considerable investment...

Authors: A. McNiven, M. Boulton, L. Locock and L. Hinton

Systematic review and policy dialogue to determine challenges in evidence-informed health policy-making: findings of the SASHA study

Various interventions have been undertaken in Iran to promote evidence-informed health policy-making (EIHP). Identifying the challenges in EIHP is the first step toward strengthening EIHP in each country throu...

Authors: Bahareh Yazdizadeh, Haniye Sadat Sajadi, Farideh Mohtasham, Mahsa Mohseni and Reza Majdzadeh

Agenda setting for essential medicines policy in sub-Saharan Africa: a retrospective policy analysis using Kingdon’s multiple streams model

Lack of access to essential medicines presents a significant threat to achieving universal health coverage (UHC) in sub-Saharan Africa. Although it is acknowledged that essential medicines policies do not rise...

Authors: Alison T. Mhazo and Charles C. Maponga

Barriers and facilitators to conducting economic evaluation studies of Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries: a survey of researchers

The number of published economic evaluations of Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries is notably scarce. Limited local evidence could have a major impact on the implementation of economic evaluation recomme...

Authors: Saja H. Almazrou, Shiekha S. Alaujan and Sinaa A. Al-Aqeel

Research priority-setting for human, plant, and animal virology: an online experience for the Virology Institute of the Philippines

Viral pandemics have had catastrophic consequences on population health and economies. The Philippine government intends to establish the Virology Institute of the Philippines, one of the key areas of which wi...

Authors: Reneepearl Kim Sales, Joseph Oraño, Rafael Deo Estanislao, Alfredo Jose Ballesteros and Ma. Ida Faye Gomez

Applying a framework to assess the impact of cardiovascular outcomes improvement research

Health and medical research funding agencies are increasingly interested in measuring the impact of funded research. We present a research impact case study for the first four years of an Australian National H...

Authors: Mitchell N. Sarkies, Suzanne Robinson, Tom Briffa, Stephen J. Duffy, Mark Nelson, John Beltrame, Louise Cullen, Derek Chew, Julian Smith, David Brieger, Peter Macdonald, Danny Liew and Chris Reid

The role of partners in promoting self-care for misoprostol and subcutaneous DMPA in Pakistan

Pakistan is among a number of countries facing protracted challenges in addressing maternal mortality with a concomitant weak healthcare system complexed with inequities. Sexual and reproductive health and rig...

Authors: Qudsia Uzma, Nausheen Hamid, Rizwana Chaudhri, Nadeem Mehmood, Atiya Aabroo, Ellen Thom, Karima Gholbzouri, Ramez Mahaini and Nilmini Hemachandra

Changing national health policies for introduction, uptake and scale-up of self-care interventions for sexual and reproductive health and rights in the Eastern Mediterranean Region

Authors: Manjulaa Narasimhan, Briana Lucido, Lale Say, Karima Gholbzouri, Maha El-Adawy and Ahmed Al Mandhari

Sexual and reproductive health self-care interventions in the Eastern Mediterranean Region: findings from a cross-sectional values and preferences survey to inform WHO normative guidance on self-care interventions

Self-care strategies for sexual and reproductive health (SRH) include practices, tools, and strategies for people to manage their health. Access to SRH services has increased in the Eastern Mediterranean Regio...

Authors: Carmen H. Logie, Heather Abela, Tarek Turk, Samantha Parker and Karima Gholbzouri

Regulatory standards and processes for over-the-counter availability of hormonal contraception and drugs for medical abortion in five countries in the Eastern Mediterranean Region

The World Health Organization 2019 WHO consolidated guideline on self-care interventions for health: sexual and reproductive health and rights includes recommendations on self-administration of injectable contrac...

Authors: Anne Ammerdorffer, Mark Laws, Arinze Awiligwe, Florence Erb, Wallada Im-Amornphong, A. Metin Gülmezoglu, Lester Chinery, Briana Lucido and Manjulaa Narasimhan

Community-led HIV self-testing for men who have sex with men in Lebanon: lessons learned and impact of COVID-19

In Lebanon, HIV is concentrated in both native and refugee communities of men who have sex with men (MSM). For over 10 years, the National AIDS Program (NAP) has offered HIV voluntary counselling and testing t...

Authors: Ismael Maatouk, Mostafa El Nakib, Moubadda Assi, Patrick Farah, Bertho Makso, Clara El Nakib and Alissar Rady

The role of community pharmacists in increasing access and use of self-care interventions for sexual and reproductive health in the Eastern Mediterranean Region: examples from Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon and Somalia

Self-care interventions offer a solution to support the achievement of three goals of the World Health Organization (WHO): to improve universal health coverage, reach people in humanitarian situations, and imp...

Authors: Luna El Bizri, Laila Ghazi Jarrar, Wael K. Ali Ali and Abdifatah H. Omar

The role of parliamentarians in promoting self-care interventions for sexual and reproductive health and rights: applying COVID-19 lens in the Eastern Mediterranean region

Innovative people-centered care modalities including self-care interventions offer an opportunity to ensure continuity of healthcare services during COVID-19 and in post-COVID-19, as well as contribute to the ...

Authors: Hala Abou-Taleb, Nada Mohamed, Karima Gholbzouri, Elisa Scolaro, Inaya Ezzeddine, Souhail Alouini, Heba Hagrass, Magdy Morshed and Neil Datta

Collective reflections on the first cycle of a collaborative learning platform to strengthen rural primary healthcare in Mpumalanga, South Africa

Frontline managers and health service providers are constrained in many contexts from responding to community priorities due to organizational cultures focused on centrally defined outputs and targets. This pa...

Authors: Maria van der Merwe, Lucia D’Ambruoso, Sophie Witter, Rhian Twine, Denny Mabetha, Jennifer Hove, Peter Byass, Stephen Tollman and Kathleen Kahn

The prevention of – and first response to – injuries in Nepal: a review of policies and legislation

Injuries, the cause of an estimated 4.5 million deaths annually and many more disabilities worldwide each year, are the predictable outcome of particular circumstances. One of the most effective ways to preven...

Authors: Puspa Raj Pant, Julie Mytton, Milan Raj Dharel, Amrit Dangi, Writu Bhatta Rai and Sunil Kumar Joshi

Structural barriers to knowledge transfer and exchange among men and women in low-, middle- and high-income countries: an international cross-sectional study with vaccine researchers in 44 countries

Globally, women constitute 30% of researchers. Despite an increasing proportion of women in research, they are still less likely to have international collaborations. Literature on barriers to knowledge transf...

Authors: Soha El-Halabi, Ronan McCabe, Birger C. Forsberg, Devy L. Elling and Ziad El-Khatib

Investigating the nature and quality of locally commissioned evaluations of the NHS Vanguard programme: an evidence synthesis

With innovation in service delivery increasingly viewed as crucial to the long-term sustainability of health systems, NHS England launched an ambitious new model of care (Vanguard) programme in 2015. Supported...

Authors: Paul Wilson, Jenny Billings, Julie MacInnes, Rasa Mikelyte, Elizabeth Welch and Kath Checkland

Enabling visibility of the clinician-scientists’ knowledge broker role: a participatory design research in the Dutch nursing-home sector

A group of clinician-scientists and managers working within a Dutch academic network, experienced difficulties in clearly defining the knowledge broker role of the clinician-scientists. They found no role clar...

Authors: Margot Barry, Wietske Kuijer, Anke Persoon, Loek Nieuwenhuis and Nynke Scherpbier

Implementation research training for learners in low- and middle-income countries: evaluating behaviour change after participating in a massive open online course

Implementation research (IR) can play a critical role in the delivery of disease control interventions, particularly in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). The growing demand for IR training has led to t...

Authors: Pascal Launois, Dermot Maher, Edith Certain, Bella Ross and Michael J. Penkunas

A scoping review of international policy responses to mental health recovery during the COVID-19 pandemic

The COVID-19 pandemic has affected people’s physical and mental health. Quarantine and other lockdown measures have altered people’s daily lives; levels of anxiety, depression, substance use, self-harm and sui...

Authors: Claire McCartan, Tomas Adell, Julie Cameron, Gavin Davidson, Lee Knifton, Shari McDaid and Ciaran Mulholland

Lessons from the pandemic on the value of research infrastructure

The COVID-19 pandemic has shed a spotlight on the resilience of healthcare systems, and their ability to cope efficiently and effectively with unexpected crises. If we are to learn one economic lesson from the...

Authors: Laurence S. J. Roope, Paolo Candio, Vasiliki Kiparoglou, Helen McShane, Raymond Duch and Philip M. Clarke

Promoting knowledge to policy translation for urban health using community-based system dynamics in Brazil

Effectively bridging the knowledge–policy gap to support the development of evidence-based policies that promote health and well-being remains a challenge for both the research and policy communities. Communit...

Authors: Lidia Maria de Oliveira Morais, Jill Kuhlberg, Ellis Ballard, Katherine Indvik, Solimar Carnavalli Rocha, Denise Marques Sales, Letícia de Oliveira Cardoso, Nelson Gouveia, Amélia Augusta de Lima Friche and Waleska Teixeira Caiaffa

Developing a Thai national critical care allocation guideline during the COVID-19 pandemic: a rapid review and stakeholder consultation

At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, Thailand had almost depleted its critical care resources, particularly intensive care unit (ICU) beds and ventilators. This prompted the necessity to develop a national ...

Authors: Aniqa Islam Marshall, Rachel Archer, Woranan Witthayapipopsakul, Kanchanok Sirison, Somtanuek Chotchoungchatchai, Pisit Sriakkpokin, Orapan Srisookwatana, Yot Teerawattananon and Viroj Tangcharoensathien

Mapping the burden of diabetes in five small countries in Europe and setting the agenda for health policy and strategic action

Diabetes is a global epidemic affecting every country. Small countries, however, face distinctive challenges related to their health system governance and their ability to implement effective health systems’ r...

Authors: Sarah Cuschieri, Elena Pallari, Natasa Terzic, Ala’a Alkerwi and Árún Kristín Sigurðardóttir