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  1. Innovative Models Promoting Access to Care Transformation (IMPACT) was a five-year (2013–2018), Canadian-Australian research program that aimed to use a community-based partnership approach to transform primar...

    Authors: Virginia J. Lewis, Catherine M. Scott, Kate Silburn and William L. Miller
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2023 21:103
  2. Vaccination plays a critical role during pandemics, and mass vaccination clinics are often an imperative public health measure. These clinics usually consist of multi-disciplinary teams, which can pose signifi...

    Authors: Moses Tetui, Ryan Tennant, Maisha Adil, Arthi Bala, Catherine Burns, Nancy Waite and Kelly Grindrod
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2023 21:102
  3. Adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) remain disproportionately affected by HIV in Zimbabwe. Several HIV prevention options are available, including oral tenofovir-based pre‐exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), howe...

    Authors: Thenjiwe Sisimayi, Definate Nhamo, Kumbirai Chatora, Gwendoline Chapwanya, Tinovonga Mawoyo, Getrude Ncube, Cal Bruns, Emily L. Harris and Katharine D. Shelley
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2023 21:101
  4. The reimbursement of new technologies in inpatient care is not always linked to a requirement for evidence-based evaluation of patient benefit. In Germany, every new technology approved for market was until re...

    Authors: Helene Eckhardt, Susanne Felgner, Marie Dreger, Sabine Fuchs, Hanna Ermann, Hendrikje Rödiger, Tanja Rombey, Reinhard Busse, Cornelia Henschke and Dimitra Panteli
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2023 21:100
  5. Evidence-informed primary health care (PHC) planning in decentralised, meso-level regional organisations has received little research attention. In this paper we examine the factors that influence planning wit...

    Authors: Alice Windle, Sara Javanparast, Toby Freeman and Fran Baum
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2023 21:99
  6. Globally, the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic tested the resilience of the health system and its shock-absorbing capacity to continue offering healthcare services. The available evidences does not...

    Authors: Nousheen Akber Pradhan, Amir Ali Barket Ali Samnani, Kiran Abbas and Narjis Rizvi
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2023 21:98
  7. Comprehensive sexuality education (CSE) has recently become salient, but adolescent sexual reproductive health and rights (ASRHR) challenges are still a global health problem. Studying policies which have impl...

    Authors: Malizgani Paul Chavula, Joseph Mumba Zulu, Isabel Goicolea and Anna-Karin Hurtig
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2023 21:97
  8. There is growing interest from health researchers in the governance of Health in All Policies (HiAP). Furthermore, the COVID-19 pandemic has re-ignited managers’ interest in HiAP governance and in health preve...

    Authors: Pernelle Smits, Johanne Préval, Jean-Louis Denis, Gerard Divay, Jacques Bourgeault and Nassera Touati
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2023 21:96
  9. The dental workforce plays a crucial role in delivering quality oral healthcare services, requiring continuous training and education to meet evolving professional demands. Understanding the impact of dental w...

    Authors: Galvin Sim Siang Lin, Shu Meng Goh and Mohd Haikal Muhamad Halil
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2023 21:95
  10. Iran is host to one of the world’s largest and longest-standing refugee populations. Although Iran has initiated a basic health insurance scheme for refugees throughout the country since September 2015, the po...

    Authors: Saeed Shahabi, Manal Etemadi, Maryam Hedayati, Kamran Bagheri Lankarani and Mihajlo Jakovljevic
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2023 21:94
  11. The COVID-19 pandemic and more recently the Monkeypox outbreak emphasize the urgency and importance of improving the availability and equitable distribution of resources for health research across rich and poo...

    Authors: Taghreed Adam, Ambinintsoa H. Ralaidovy, Anna Laura Ross, John C. Reeder and Soumya Swaminathan
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2023 21:93
  12. Involving research users in collaborative research approaches may increase the relevance and utility of research findings. Our primary objectives were to (i) identify and describe characteristics of Canadian f...

    Authors: Kathryn M. Sibley, Masood Khan, Alexie J. Touchette, Leah K. Crockett, S. Michelle Driedger, Heather L. Gainforth, Devashree Prabhu, Dawn Steliga, Olivia Tefft and Ian D. Graham
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2023 21:92
  13. Integrated knowledge translation (IKT) through strategic, continuous engagement with decision-makers represents an approach to bridge research, policy and practice. The Collaboration for Evidence-based Healthc...

    Authors: Kerstin Sell, Nasreen S. Jessani, Firaol Mesfin, Eva A. Rehfuess, Anke Rohwer, Peter Delobelle, Bonny E. Balugaba, Bey-Marrié Schmidt, Kiya Kedir, Talitha Mpando, Jean Berchmans Niyibizi, Jimmy Osuret, Esther Bayiga-Zziwa, Tamara Kredo, Nyanyiwe Masingi Mbeye and Lisa M. Pfadenhauer
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2023 21:91
  14. Systems thinking approaches are increasingly being used by communities to address complex chronic disease. This paper reports on the VicHealth Local Government Partnership (VLGP) which sought to co-create impr...

    Authors: Tiana Felmingham, Siobhan O’Halloran, Jaimie Poorter, Ebony Rhook, Cindy Needham, Joshua Hayward, Penny Fraser, Stephanie Kilpatrick, Deana Leahy and Steven Allender
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2023 21:90
  15. Leadership and governance are critical for achieving universal health coverage (UHC). In South Africa, aspirations for UHC are expressed through the proposed National Health Insurance (NHI) system, which under...

    Authors: Khanyisile Tshabalala and Laetitia C. Rispel
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2023 21:89
  16. Since the withdrawal of government forces from Northwest Syria due to the conflict, several national initiatives have aimed to create alternative governance approaches to replace the central governmental syste...

    Authors: Maher Alaref, Orwa Al-Abdulla, Zedoun Al Zoubi, Munzer Al Khalil and Abdulkarim Ekzayez
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2023 21:88
  17. People living in rural areas have poorer health than their urban counterparts. Although rural health research centres have been promoted as vehicles for improving rural health by contributing evidence to addre...

    Authors: Jodie Bailie, Petr Matous, Ross Bailie and Megan E. Passey
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2023 21:87
  18. Research priority setting (RPS) studies are necessary to close the significant gap between the scientific evidence produced and the evidence stakeholders need. Their findings can make resource allocation in re...

    Authors: Dyon Hoekstra, Ansgar Gerhardus and Stefan K. Lhachimi
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2023 21:86
  19. Systems science offers methods for designing population health interventions while implementation science provides specific guidance for successful implementation. Integrating systems and implementation scienc...

    Authors: Jillian Whelan, Penny Fraser, Kristy A. Bolton, Penelope Love, Claudia Strugnell, Tara Boelsen-Robinson, Miranda R. Blake, Erik Martin, Steven Allender and Colin Bell
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2023 21:85
  20. Tunisia has been engaged in the Societal Dialogue (SD) for Health process since 2012, a participatory health governance process aimed at bringing in people’s voice into health policy-making. Its first success ...

    Authors: Hela Ben Mesmia, Dheepa Rajan, Rim Bouhafa Chtioui, Kira Koch, Imen Jaouadi, Hala Aboutaleb, Sana De Courcelles, Louisa Atmani, Blanche Pujos and Ali Mtiraoui
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2023 21:84
  21. There is growing evidence that context mediates the effects of implementation interventions intended to increase healthcare professionals’ use of research evidence in clinical practice. However, conceptual cla...

    Authors: Janet E. Squires, Ian D. Graham, Wilmer J. Santos and Alison M. Hutchinson
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2023 21:81
  22. One of the central debates in health policy is related to the fragmentation of health systems. Fragmentation is perceived as a major obstacle to UHC. This article presents the results of a consultation with a ...

    Authors: Octavio Gómez-Dantés, Laura Flamand, Diego Cerecero-García, Mariana Morales-Vazquez and Edson Serván-Mori
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2023 21:80
  23. To maximise their potential benefits to communities, effective health behaviour interventions need to be implemented, ideally ‘at scale’, and are often adapted as part of this. To inform future implementation ...

    Authors: Sam McCrabb, Alix Hall, Heather McKay, Sharleen Gonzalez, Andrew Milat, Adrian Bauman, Rachel Sutherland and Luke Wolfenden
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2023 21:79
  24. In Pakistan, the COVID-19 outbreak posed a significant challenge for healthcare workers in the country’s public hospitals. The HCWs faced several problems in terms of the COVID-19 pandemic. Therefore this stud...

    Authors: Saifullah, Zhiqiang Ma, Mingxing Li and Muhammad Qasim Maqbool
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2023 21:78
  25. GRADE-CERQual (Confidence in the Evidence from Reviews of Qualitative Research) is a methodological approach to systematically and transparently assess how much confidence decision makers can place in individu...

    Authors: Megan Wainwright, Rana Islamiah Zahroh, Özge Tunçalp, Andrew Booth, Meghan A. Bohren, Jane Noyes, Weilong Cheng, Heather Munthe-Kaas and Simon Lewin
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2023 21:77
  26. The United States’ National Institutes of Health (NIH) have long challenged academia to improve clinical trial enrollment, especially in underrepresented populations; inclusive of geography, age, disability st...

    Authors: Paige Farris, Rachel Crist, Sylvia Miller and Jackilen Shannon
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2023 21:76
  27. Globally, health insurance has been identified as a key component of healthcare financing. The implementation of health insurance policies in low and middle-income countries has led to a significant increase i...

    Authors: Martin Ayanore, Agani Afaya, Maxwell Tii Kumbeni, Timothy Tienbia Laari, Bright Opoku Ahinkorah, Solomon Mohammed Salia, Victoria Bam, Vida Nyagre Yakong, Richard Adongo Afaya, Robert Kaba Alhassan and Abdul-Aziz Seidu
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2023 21:75
  28. Collaborative health research, such as integrated knowledge translation (IKT), requires researchers to have specific knowledge and skills in working in partnership with knowledge users. Graduate students are o...

    Authors: Sarah Madeline Gallant, Christine Cassidy, Joyce Al-Rassi, Elaine Moody, Hwayeon Danielle Shin, Shauna Best and Audrey Steenbeek
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2023 21:74
  29. Health policy and systems research (HPSR) has influenced Philippine policies, including tobacco control, mental health, and COVID-19. The Department of Health (DOH) Philippines and Philippine Council for Healt...

    Authors: Reneepearl Kim Sales, Gladys Kaye Reyes-Ramos, Chiqui de Veyra, Gabrielle Gascon, Vianka Barraca, Gillian Garcia and Maria Eufemia Yap
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2023 21:73
  30.  The aim of this work is to characterize the processes associated with patient and public involvement (PPI) in the form of public consultations (PC) during the first 10 years of operation of the National Commi...

    Authors: Ana Carolina De Freitas Lopes, Hillegonda Maria Dutilh Novaes and Patrícia Coelho De Soárez
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2023 21:72
  31. Health evidence needs to be communicated and disseminated in a manner that is clearly understood by decision-makers. As an inherent component of health knowledge translation, communicating results of scientifi...

    Authors: Rachel Riera, Carolina de Oliveira Cruz Latorraca, Roberta Carreira Moreira Padovez, Rafael Leite Pacheco, Davi Mamblona Marques Romão, Jorge Otávio Maia Barreto, Maria Lúcia Teixeira Machado, Romeu Gomes, Silvio Fernandes da Silva and Ana Luiza Cabrera Martimbianco
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2023 21:71
  32. Digital transformation in healthcare and the growth of health data generation and collection are important challenges for the secondary use of healthcare records in the health research field. Likewise, due to ...

    Authors: Celia Alvarez-Romero, Alicia Martínez-García, Máximo Bernabeu-Wittel and Carlos Luis Parra-Calderón
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2023 21:70
  33. Participatory systems mapping is increasingly used to gain insight into the complex systems surrounding non-communicable diseases (NCDs) and their risk factors.

    Authors: Amber van den Akker, Alice Fabbri, Dima I. Alardah, Anna B. Gilmore and Harry Rutter
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2023 21:69
  34. The Belgian government has taken several measures to increase the uptake of biosimilars in past years. However, no formal evaluation of the impact of these measures has been made yet. This study aimed to inves...

    Authors: Yannick Vandenplas, Steven Simoens, Philippe Van Wilder, Arnold G. Vulto and Isabelle Huys
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2023 21:68
  35. Local governments play an important role in improving public health outcomes globally, critical to this work is applying the best-available research evidence. Despite considerable exploration of research use i...

    Authors: Jennifer L. Dam, Phoebe Nagorka-Smith, Alex Waddell, Annemarie Wright, Joannette J. Bos and Peter Bragge
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2023 21:67
  36. Biomedical research on Alzheimer’s disease (AD), breast cancer (BC) and prostate cancer (PC) has globally improved our understanding of the etiopathological mechanisms underlying the onset of these diseases, o...

    Authors: Francesca Pistollato, Ivana Campia, Evangelos P. Daskalopoulos, Camilla Bernasconi, Christian Desaintes, Sergio Di Virgilio, Christina Kyriakopoulou, Maurice Whelan and Pierre Deceuninck
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2023 21:66
  37. The Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (PM-JAY), a publicly funded health insurance scheme, was launched in India in September 2018 to provide financial access to health services for poor Indians. PM-JAY design ...

    Authors: Swati Srivastava, Maria Paola Bertone, Sharmishtha Basu, Manuela De Allegri and Stephan Brenner
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2023 21:65
  38. Research priority setting aims to identify research gaps within particular health fields. Given the global burden of mental illness and underfunding of mental health research compared to other health topics, k...

    Authors: Kris Deering, Neil Brimblecombe, Jane C. Matonhodze, Fiona Nolan, Daniela A. Collins and Laoise Renwick
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2023 21:64
  39. Government policy can promote physical activity (PA) as part of a multilevel systems-based approach. The Physical Activity Environment Policy Index (PA-EPI) is a monitoring framework which assesses the impleme...

    Authors: Kevin Volf, Liam Kelly, Aurelie Van Hoye, Enrique García Bengoechea, Ann MacPhail and Catherine B. Woods
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2023 21:63
  40. Evidence-based decision-making is a foundation of health information systems; however, routine health information is not mostly utilized by decision makers in the Amhara region. Therefore, this study aimed to ...

    Authors: Moges Asressie Chanyalew, Mezgebu Yitayal, Asmamaw Atnafu and Binyam Tilahun
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2023 21:62
  41. Despite the legalization of abortion in 2002 and the concerted efforts of the Ministry of Health and Population, abortion services remain inaccessible for many Nepali women. In 2017, the United States governme...

    Authors: Sarmila Dhakal, Mahesh Puri, Preeti Gautam, Kusum Wagle, Samantha Luffy and Bergen Cooper
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2023 21:61
  42. Refugees, asylum seekers, and migrants without status experience precarious living and working conditions that disproportionately expose them to coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). In the two most populous Ca...

    Authors: Lara Gautier, Erica Di Ruggiero, Carly Jackson, Naïma Bentayeb, Marie-Jeanne Blain, Fariha Chowdhury, Serigne Touba Mbacké Gueye, Muzhgan Haydary, Lara Maillet, Laila Mahmoudi, Shinjini Mondal, Armel Ouffouet Bessiranthy, Pierre Pluye, Saliha Ziam and Nassera Touati
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2023 21:59
  43. Local evidence is important for contextualized knowledge translation. It can be used to adapt global recommendations, to identify future research priorities and inform local policy decisions. However, there ar...

    Authors: Clémence Ongolo-Zogo, Hussein El-Khechen, Frederick Morfaw, Pascal Djiadjeu, Babalwa Zani, Andrea Darzi, Paul Wankah Nji, Agatha Nyambi, Andrea Youta, Faiyaz Zaman, Cheikh Tchouambou Youmbi, Ines Ndzana Siani and Lawrence Mbuagbaw
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2023 21:58
  44. Efficiency analyses have been widely used in the literature to rank countries regarding their health system performances. However, little place has been given to the environmental aspect: two countries with th...

    Authors: Armel Ngami and Bruno Ventelou
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2023 21:57
  45. To support public health researchers and advocates seeking to challenge the influence of powerful commercial actors on health, it is necessary to develop a deeper understanding of corporate political activitie...

    Authors: Jennifer Lacy-Nichols, Madalyn Quinn and Katherine Cullerton
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2023 21:56
  46. The translation of research into healthcare practice relies on effective communication between disciplines, however strategies to address the gap between information sharing and knowledge transfer are still un...

    Authors: Janelle James-McAlpine, Sarah Larkins and Cate Nagle
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2023 21:55
  47. The integration of preventative health services into England’s National Health Service is one of the cornerstones of current health policy. This integration is primarily envisaged through the removal of legisl...

    Authors: Tehseen Khan, Clare Coultas, Katharina Kieslich and Peter Littlejohns
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2023 21:53