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  1. In prior research, we identified and prioritized ten measures to assess research performance that comply with the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment, a principle adopted worldwide that discourage...

    Authors: Himani Boury, Mathieu Albert, Robert H. C. Chen, James C. L. Chow, Ralph DaCosta, Michael M. Hoffman, Behrang Keshavarz, Pia Kontos, Mary Pat McAndrews, Stephanie Protze and Anna R. Gagliardi
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2023 21:43
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  2. Systems thinking can be used as a participatory data collection and analysis tool to understand complex implementation contexts and their dynamics with interventions, and it can support the selection of tailor...

    Authors: Cassandra Rehbock, Thomas Krafft, Anja Sommer, Carijn Beumer, Stefan K. Beckers, Stefan Thate, Jörn Kaminski and Alexandra Ziemann
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2023 21:42
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  3. Evidence-informed policymaking on human resources for health (HRH) has been directly linked with health system productivity, accessibility, equity, quality, and efficiency. The lack of reliable HRH data has ma...

    Authors: Zhila Najafpour, Mohammad Arab and Kamran Shayanfard
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2023 21:41
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  4. Despite the importance of evidence syntheses in informing policymaking, their production and use remain limited in the Eastern Mediterranean region (EMR). There is a lack of empirical research on approaches to...

    Authors: Fadi El-Jardali, Racha Fadlallah, Lama Bou Karroum and Elie A. Akl
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2023 21:40
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  5. The participation of health professionals in designing interventions is considered vital to effective implementation, yet in areas such as clinical coordination is rarely promoted and evaluated. This study, pa...

    Authors: Ingrid Vargas, Amparo-Susana Mogollón-Pérez, Pamela Eguiguren, Isabella Samico, Fernando Bertolotto, Julieta López-Vázquez, Delia-Inés Amarilla, Pierre De Paepe and María-Luisa Vázquez
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2023 21:39
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  6. The disconnect between research and clinical practice leads to research evidence that is often not useful for clinical practice. Practice-based research networks are collaborations between researchers and clin...

    Authors: Connor Gleadhill, Christopher M. Williams, Steven J. Kamper, Katarzyna Bolsewicz, Andrew Delbridge, Benjamin Mahon, Bruce Donald, Caitlin Delore, Craig Boettcher, David Renfrew, Joshua Manvell, Katherine Dooley, Michael Byrne, Toby Watson, Andrew Makaroff, Benedicta Gibbs…
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2023 21:38
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  7. Hypertensive patients' failure to refer to health centers for the management of their disease is the most fundamental public health challenge in most societies. The aim of this study was to identify the utiliz...

    Authors: Farzad Faraji-Khiavi, Sasan Ghorbani Kalkhajeh, Behnam Gholizadeh and Behnaz Dindamal
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2023 21:37
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  8. Evidence-informed policy-making aims to ensure that the best and most relevant evidence is systematically generated and used for policy-making. The aim of this study was to assess institutional structures, fun...

    Authors: Chigozie Jesse Uneke, Ijeoma Nkem Okedo‑Alex, Ifeyinwa Chizoba Akamike, Bilikis Iyabo Uneke, Irene Ifeyinwa Eze, Onyekachi Echefu Chukwu, Kingsley Igboji Otubo and Henry C. Urochukwu
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2023 21:36
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  9. Local government authorities are well positioned to change the way food is produced and consumed through the implementation of integrated food policies. By facilitating the uptake of healthy and sustainable di...

    Authors: Liza R. Barbour, Julie L. Woods and Julie K. Brimblecombe
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2023 21:35
    Content type: Commentary Published on:

  10. The WHO Unity Studies initiative supports countries, especially low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), in conducting seroepidemiologic studies for rapidly informing responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. Ten g...

    Authors: Karen Hennessey, Lorenzo Pezzoli and Carsten Mantel
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2023 21:34
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  11. Despite the high burden of mental disorders in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), less than 25% of those in need have access to appropriate services, in part due to a scarcity of locally relevant, evide...

    Authors: Ramdas Ransing, Mary Hawk, Margaret McDonald, Jacquelyn Jones, Triptish Bhatia, Vijay Verma, Gyan D. Shah, Jaspreet Brar, James Erin Egan, Prasad Konsale, Jasmine Kaur, Ravinder Singh, Harpreet Singh, R. S. Dhaliwal, Joel Wood, Vishwajit Nimgaonkar…
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2023 21:33
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  12. Recommendations for research partnerships between low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) and high-income countries (HICs) stress the importance of equity within the collaboration. However, there is limited k...

    Authors: Chelsea E. Modlin, Edward Nelson Kankaka, Larry W. Chang, Nelson K. Sewankambo and Joseph Ali
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2023 21:32
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  13. Citizen science (CS) is increasingly being utilised to involve the public in public health research, but little is known about whether and how CS can address the needs of policy and practice stakeholders in he...

    Authors: Leah Marks, Ben J. Smith, Jo Mitchell, Yvonne Laird and Samantha Rowbotham
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2023 21:31
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  14. Research impact is an emerging measure of research achievement alongside traditional academic outputs such as publications. We present the results of applying the Framework to Assess the Impact from Translatio...

    Authors: Shanthi Ramanathan, Elizabeth Lynch, Julie Bernhardt, Michael Nilsson, Dominique A. Cadilhac, Leeanne Carey, Sandy Middleton, Jan Chamberlain, Frederick Rohan Walker, Penny Reeves and Andrew Searles
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2023 21:30
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  15. Neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) are associated with high levels of morbidity and disability as a result of stigma and social exclusion. To date, the management of NTDs has been largely biomedical. Consequen...

    Authors: Laura Dean, Rachel Tolhurst, Gartee Nallo, Karsor Kollie, Anthony Bettee and Sally Theobald
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2023 21:29
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  16. Given the many challenges facing healthcare access in many developing countries and the added limitations observed in emergencies like COVID-19 pandemic, the authors here discuss an alternative and feasible ap...

    Authors: Omnia Abdelraheem, Diana G. Sami and Mohamed Salama
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2023 21:28
    Content type: Commentary Published on:

  17. The transference of research evidence into routine healthcare practice remains poorly understood. This includes understanding the prerequisites of longer-term viability. The present study investigated the sust...

    Authors: Emily Banwell, Neil Humphrey and Pamela Qualter
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2023 21:27
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  18. Releasing timely and relevant clinical guidelines is challenging for organizations globally. Priority-setting is crucial, as guideline development is resource-intensive. Our aim, as a national organization res...

    Authors: Brooke Atkins, Tom Briffa, Cia Connell, Amanda K. Buttery and Garry L. R. Jennings
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2023 21:26
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  19. Comments in PubMed are usually short papers for supporting or refuting claims, or discussing methods and findings in original articles. This study aims to explore whether they can be used as a quick and reliab...

    Authors: Shuang Wang, Halil Kilicoglu and Jian Du
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2023 21:25
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  20. Success with highly active antiretroviral therapy (ART) for the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in developing countries has been attributed to collaborative North–South resource-sharing and capacity-buildin...

    Authors: Charles C. Maponga, Alison T. Mhazo and Gene D. Morse
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2023 21:24
    Content type: Review Published on:

  21. Evidence on health inequalities has been growing over the past few decades, yet the capacity to produce research on health inequalities varies between countries worldwide and needs to be strengthened. More in-...

    Authors: Lucinda Cash-Gibson, Eliana Martinez-Herrera and Joan Benach
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2023 21:23
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  22. In Brazil, there have been some initiatives to improve the development of Ministry of Health clinical protocols and therapeutic guidelines (PCDTs in Portuguese, and clinical practice guidelines—CPGs, in Englis...

    Authors: Viviane Cássia Pereira, Sarah Nascimento Silva, Ávila Teixeira Vidal, Gustavo Veiga e Lins and Jorge Otávio Maia Barreto
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2023 21:22
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  23. Universal health coverage (UHC) is an emerging priority of health systems worldwide and central to Sustainable Development Goal 3 (target 3.8). Critical to the achievement of UHC, is quality of care. However, ...

    Authors: Bernice Yanful, Abirami Kirubarajan, Dominika Bhatia, Sujata Mishra, Sara Allin and Erica Di Ruggiero
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2023 21:21
    Content type: Review Published on:

  24. Transdisciplinary research and knowledge translation are increasingly regarded as key concepts underpinning applied research across the health and social sciences, due to their presumed potential in addressing...

    Authors: Mandy M. Archibald, Michael T. Lawless, Maria Alejandra Pinero de Plaza and Alison L. Kitson
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2023 21:20
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  25. Research capacity-strengthening is recognized as an important component of global health partnership working, and as such merits monitoring and evaluation. Early career researchers are often the recipients of ...

    Authors: Claire Hawcroft, Evelina Rossi, Nerissa Tilouche, Ana Flavia d’Oliveira and Loraine J. Bacchus
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2023 21:19
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  26. Complex systems approaches are increasingly used in health promotion and noncommunicable disease prevention research, policy and practice. Questions emerge as to the best ways to take a complex systems approac...

    Authors: Lori Baugh Littlejohns, Erin Near, Geoff McKee, Drona Rasali, Daniel Naiman and Guy Faulkner
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2023 21:18
    Content type: Review Published on:

  27. High salt intake is a major cause of hypertension and cardiovascular diseases. The out-of-home sectors have been identified as one of the contributors of high salt intake in the population. The National Salt R...

    Authors: Zaliha Harun, Suzana Shahar, Yee Xing You, Zahara Abdul Manaf, Hazreen Abdul Majid, Yook Chin Chia, Hasnah Haron, Viola Michael, Noor Shahida Sukiman, Aida Farzana Mohamad Taib, Feng J. He and Mhairi K. Brown
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2023 21:17
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  28. Evidence-informed policy-making (EIPM) requires a set of individual and organizational capacities, linked with background factors and needs. The identification of essential knowledge, skills and attitudes for ...

    Authors: Jorge Otávio Maia Barreto, Davi Mamblona Marques Romão, Cecilia Setti, Maria Lúcia Teixeira Machado, Rachel Riera, Romeu Gomes and Silvio Fernandes da Silva
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2023 21:16
    Content type: Review Published on:

  29. Shared decision-making (SDM) has been shown to improve healthcare outcomes and is a recognized right of patients. Policy requires health services to implement SDM. However, there is limited research into what ...

    Authors: Alex Waddell, Gerri Spassova, Louise Sampson, Lena Jungbluth, Jennifer Dam and Peter Bragge
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2023 21:15
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  30. COVID-19 has prompted the use of readily available administrative data to track health system performance in times of crisis and to monitor disruptions in essential healthcare services. In this commentary we d...

    Authors: Anne-Marie Turcotte-Tremblay, Borwornsom Leerapan, Patricia Akweongo, Freddie Amponsah, Amit Aryal, Daisuke Asai, John Koku Awoonor-Williams, Wondimu Ayele, Sebastian Bauhoff, Svetlana V. Doubova, Dominic Dormenyo Gadeka, Mahesh Dulal, Anna Gage, Georgiana Gordon-Strachan, Damen Haile-Mariam, Jean Paul Joseph…
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2023 21:14
    Content type: Commentary Published on:

  31. A policy dialogue is a tool which promotes evidence-informed policy-making. It involves deliberation about a high-priority issue, informed by a synthesis of the best-available evidence, where potential policy ...

    Authors: Polly Mitchell, Marge Reinap, Kaelan Moat and Tanja Kuchenmüller
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2023 21:13
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  32. With the sharp increase in the involvement of patients (including family and informal caregivers) as active participants, collaborators, advisors and decision-makers in health systems, a new role has emerged: ...

    Authors: Meredith Vanstone, Carolyn Canfield, Cara Evans, Myles Leslie, Mary Anne Levasseur, Maggie MacNeil, Manisha Pahwa, Janelle Panday, Paula Rowland, Shipra Taneja, Laura Tripp, Jeonghwa You and Julia Abelson
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2023 21:12
    Content type: Review Published on:

  33. Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) became a pandemic within a matter of months. Analysing the first year of the pandemic, data and surveillance gaps have subsequently surfaced. Yet, policy decisions and publi...

    Authors: Elizabeth Alvarez, Iwona A. Bielska, Stephanie Hopkins, Ahmed A. Belal, Donna M. Goldstein, Jean Slick, Sureka Pavalagantharajah, Anna Wynfield, Shruthi Dakey, Marie-Carmel Gedeon, Edris Alam and Katrina Bouzanis
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2023 21:11
    Content type: Review Published on:

  34. The initial policy response to the COVID-19 pandemic has differed widely across countries. Such variability in government interventions has made it difficult for policymakers and health research systems to com...

    Authors: Naomi Moy, Marcello Antonini, Mattias Kyhlstedt, Gianluca Fiorentini and Francesco Paolucci
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2023 21:10
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  35. Responding to complex needs calls for integrating care across providers, settings and sectors. Among models to improve integrated care, case management demonstrates a good evidence base of facilitating the app...

    Authors: Catherine Hudon and Rodger Kessler
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2023 21:9
    Content type: Commentary Published on:

  36. The purpose of this study was to develop and validate the Policymakers’ Information Use Questionnaire (POLIQ) to capture the intention of individuals in decision-making positions, such as health policy-makers,...

    Authors: Keiko Shikako, Reem El Sherif, Roberta Cardoso, Hao Zhang, Jonathan Lai, Ebele R. I. Mogo and Tibor Schuster
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2023 21:8
    Content type: Research Published on:

  37. Despite political promise to reduce out-of-pocket (OOP) expenditure on healthcare through the National Health Insurance Program (NHIP) of Nepal, its implementation is challenging with low enrolment and high dr...

    Authors: Geha N. Khanal, Bishal Bharadwaj, Nijan Upadhyay, Tulasi Bhattarai, Minakshi Dahal and Resham B. Khatri
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2023 21:7
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  38. Use of epidemiological research in policy and practice is suboptimal, contributing to significant preventable morbidity and mortality. Barriers to the use of research evidence in policy include lack of researc...

    Authors: Emily Banks, Abby Haynes, Ray Lovett, Uday Narayan Yadav and Jason Agostino
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2023 21:6
    Content type: Commentary Published on:

  39. Purely technical interventions aimed at enhancing evidence-informed decision-making (EIDM) have rarely translated into organizational institutionalization or systems change. A panel of four presentations at th...

    Authors: Jeffrey Mecaskey, Ben Verboom, Marco Liverani, Rhona Mijumbi-Deve and Nasreen S. Jessani
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2023 21:5
    Content type: Commentary Published on:

  40. Pakistan is the fifth most populous country in the world, with a population that is growing at 2.4% annually. Despite considerable political will, including a national commitment that was endorsed by the presi...

    Authors: Mujahid Abdullah, Faiq Bilal, Romesa Khan, Azadeh Ahmed, Aamir Ashraf Khawaja, Faisal Sultan and Adnan Ahmad Khan
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2023 21:4
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  41. To identify and assess the globally available valid, reliable and acceptable tools for assessing health research partnership outcomes and impacts.

    Authors: K. J. Mrklas, J. M. Boyd, S. Shergill, S. Merali, M. Khan, L. Nowell, A. Goertzen, L. M. Pfadenhauer, K. Paul, K. M. Sibley, L. Swain, M. Vis-Dunbar, M. D. Hill, S. Raffin-Bouchal, M. Tonelli and I. D. Graham
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2023 21:3
    Content type: Review Published on:

  42. Diabetes is a major public health concern, with approximately 80% of the burden falling on low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Diabetic retinopathy (DR) is one of the most common microvascular complicati...

    Authors: Katie Curran, Prabhath Piyasena, Nathan Congdon, Lisa Duke, Belma Malanda and Tunde Peto
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2023 21:2
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  43. Many countries have an inefficient vaccination system, which hinders global exit from the COVID-19 pandemic. It is vital to summarize COVID-19 vaccination practices in countries with high vaccination coverage ...

    Authors: Qian Wang, Zhiqiang Qu, Shiyi Tu, Xi Chen and Zhiyuan Hou
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2022 20:142
    Content type: Research Published on:

  44. The WHO ACTION-I trial, the largest placebo-controlled trial on antenatal corticosteroids (ACS) efficacy and safety to date, reaffirmed the benefits of ACS on mortality reduction among early preterm newborns i...

    Authors: Ayesha De Costa, Olufemi T. Oladapo, Shuchita Gupta, Anayda Portela, Joshua P. Vogel, Joao Paulo Souza, Suman Rao, Nicole Minckas, Özge Tuncalp, Rajiv Bahl and Fernando Althabe
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2022 20:141
    Content type: Opinion Published on:

  45. This paper seeks to assess the sustainability of the reformed maternity insurance system and the extent to which China’s current maternity insurance system can support different levels of fertility incentives ...

    Authors: Xiaotian Zhang, Xiaoyun Liu, Wanxin Wang, Lulin Zhou, Yang Wang and Mingyue Li
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2022 20:140
    Content type: Research Published on:

  46. Pakistan’s maternal mortality rate remains persistently high at 186/100,000 live births. The country’s government-run first-level healthcare facilities, the basic health units (BHUs), are an important source o...

    Authors: Sarah Salway, Zubia Mumtaz, Afshan Bhatti, Amy Barnes, Jeremy Dawson and Gian Singh Jhangri
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2022 20:139
    Content type: Study Protocol Published on:

  47. Good governance and regulatory supervision are required to conduct research in an international public health emergency context and to ensure compliance with ethical standards. The “Strengthening research ethi...

    Authors: Julio Arturo Canario Guzmán, Jessie Orlich, Renata Mendizábal-Cabrera, Argentina Ying, Claude Vergès, Eleonora Espinoza, Mario Soriano, Elsy Cárcamo, Briana Beltrán, Eddys Rafael Mendoza Marrero, Reyna Sepulveda, Claudia Nieto Anderson, Nicole Feune de Colombi, Roxana Lescano, Eddy Pérez-Then, Trudie Lang…
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2022 20:138
    Content type: Research Published on:

  48. In insurance-based healthcare systems, healthcare insurers are interested in engaging citizens in care procurement to contract healthcare services that matter to people. In the Netherlands, an amendment to the...

    Authors: Óscar Brito Fernandes, Véronique Bos, Niek Klazinga and Dionne Kringos
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2022 20:137
    Content type: Research Published on:

  49. Strong Global South (GS) health research leadership, itself both dependent on and a requisite for strong health research systems, is essential to generate locally relevant research and ensure that evidence is ...

    Authors: Marian Abouzeid, Ahlam Muthanna, Iman Nuwayhid, Fadi El-Jardali, Phil Connors, Rima R. Habib, Shahram Akbarzadeh and Samer Jabbour
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2022 20:136
    Content type: Commentary Published on:

  50. Public involvement in health and social care research is increasingly prioritized by policy-makers and research funders. Often, the impact of the involvement is described in terms of how it has contributed to ...

    Authors: Camilla Malm, Håkan Jönson, Stefan Andersson and Elizabeth Hanson
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2022 20:135
    Content type: Research Published on:
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