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  1. The last 5–10 years have seen significant international momentum build around the field of health policy and systems research and analysis (HPSR + A). Strengthening post-graduate teaching is seen as central to...

    Authors: Ermin Erasmus, Uta Lehmann, Irene Akua Agyepong, John Alwar, Don de Savigny, Peter Kamuzora, Tolib Mirzoev, Nonhlanhla Nxumalo, Göran Tomson, Benjamin Uzochukwu and Lucy Gilson
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2016 14:29
    Content type: Research Published on:

  2. Medico-legal death investigations are a recognised data source for public health endeavours and its accessibility has increased following the development of electronic data systems. Despite time and cost savin...

    Authors: Lyndal Bugeja, Joseph E. Ibrahim, Noha Ferrah, Briony Murphy, Melissa Willoughby and David Ranson
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2016 14:28
    Content type: Review Published on:

  3. Evidence-informed policymaking has been promoted as a means of ensuring better outcomes. However, what counts as evidence in policymaking lies within a spectrum of expert knowledge and scientifically generated...

    Authors: Chinyere O. Mbachu, Obinna Onwujekwe, Ifeanyi Chikezie, Nkoli Ezumah, Mahua Das and Benjamin S. C. Uzochukwu
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2016 14:27
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  4. Authors: Emily M. Vargas-Riaño, Victor Becerril-Montekio, Miguel Ángel Gonzalez-Block, Patricia Akweongo, Cynthia N. A. Hazel, Maria de Fatima Cuembelo, Felix Limbani, Wanderley Bernardo and Fernando Muñoz
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2016 14:26
    Content type: Erratum Published on:

    The original article was published in Health Research Policy and Systems 2016 14:1

  5. This study examines, as a part of the European Union funded Adopting Hospital Based Health Technology Assessment (AdHopHTA) project, the results and barriers of collaboration between Finnish hospitals and the ...

    Authors: Esa Halmesmäki, Iris Pasternack and Risto Roine
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2016 14:25
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  6. National health research for development (R4D) platforms in lower income countries (LICs) are few. The Health Research Capacity Strengthening Initiative (HRCSI, 2008–2013) was a national systems-strengthening ...

    Authors: Donald C. Cole, Lot Jata Nyirenda, Nadia Fazal and Imelda Bates
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2016 14:24
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  7. Public engagement (PE) has become a common feature of many liberal governmental agendas worldwide. Since the turn of this century there has been a succession of United Kingdom policy initiatives to encourage r...

    Authors: Jennifer E. van Bekkum, Gillian M. Fergie and Shona Hilton
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2016 14:23
    Content type: Research Published on:

  8. Given the context-specific nature of health research prioritization and the obligation to effectively allocate resources to initiatives that will achieve the greatest impact, evaluation of priority setting pro...

    Authors: Rebecca L. Mador, Kathy Kornas, Anne Simard and Vinita Haroun
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2016 14:22
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  9. It is very challenging for resource-limited settings to introduce universal health coverage (UHC), particularly regarding the inclusion of high-cost renal dialysis as part of the UHC benefit package. This pape...

    Authors: Yot Teerawattananon, Alia Luz, Songyot Pilasant, Suteenoot Tangsathitkulchai, Sarocha Chootipongchaivat, Nattha Tritasavit, Inthira Yamabhai and Sripen Tantivess
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2016 14:21
    Content type: Review Published on:

  10. There is an increasing interest worldwide to ensure evidence-informed health policymaking as a means to improve health systems performance. There is a need to engage policymakers in collaborative approaches to...

    Authors: Etienne V. Langlois, Victor Becerril Montekio, Taryn Young, Kayla Song, Jacqueline Alcalde-Rabanal and Nhan Tran
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2016 14:20
    Content type: Research Published on:

  12. In an ideal world, researchers and decision-makers would be involved from the outset in co-producing evidence, with local health needs assessments informing the research agenda and research evidence informing ...

    Authors: Anne Andermann, Tikki Pang, John N Newton, Adrian Davis and Ulysses Panisset
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2016 14:18
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  13. Even the highest quality evidence will have little impact unless it is incorporated into decision-making for health. It is therefore critical to overcome the many barriers to using evidence in decision-making,...

    Authors: Anne Andermann, Tikki Pang, John N. Newton, Adrian Davis and Ulysses Panisset
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2016 14:17
    Content type: Review Published on:

  14. Making evidence-informed decisions with the aim of improving the health of individuals or populations can be facilitated by using a systematic approach. While a number of algorithms already exist, and while th...

    Authors: Anne Andermann, Tikki Pang, John N Newton, Adrian Davis and Ulysses Panisset
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2016 14:16
    Content type: Review Published on:

  15. Evidence-based policy (EBP), a concept modelled on the principles of evidence-based medicine (EBM), is widely used in different areas of policymaking. Systematic reviews (SRs) with meta-analyses gradually beca...

    Authors: Kirsti Malterud, Anne Karen Bjelland and Kari Tove Elvbakken
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2016 14:15
    Content type: Research Published on:

    The Letter to the Editor to this article has been published in Health Research Policy and Systems 2018 16:112

    The Letter to the Editor to this article has been published in Health Research Policy and Systems 2018 16:111

  16. Road traffic crashes have been an increasing threat to the wellbeing of road users worldwide; an unacceptably high number of people die or become disabled from them. While high-income countries have successful...

    Authors: Adnan A. Hyder, Robyn Norton, Ricardo Pérez-Núñez, Francisco R. Mojarro-Iñiguez, Margie Peden and Olive Kobusingye
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2016 14:14
    Content type: Commentary Published on:

  17. Health policy and systems research and analysis (HPSR+A) has been noted as central to health systems strengthening, yet the capacity for HPSR+A is limited in low- and middle-income countries. Building the capa...

    Authors: Benjamin Uzochukwu, Chinyere Mbachu, Obinna Onwujekwe, Chinenye Okwuosa, Enyi Etiaba, Monica E. Nyström and Lucy Gilson
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2016 14:13
    Content type: Research Published on:

  18. Little is known about who the main public and philanthropic funders of health research are globally, what they fund and how they decide what gets funded. This study aims to identify the 10 largest public and p...

    Authors: Roderik F. Viergever and Thom C. C. Hendriks
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2016 14:12
    Content type: Research Published on:

  19. Network partnerships between public health and third sector organisations are being used to address the complexities of population level social determinants of health and health equity. An understanding of how...

    Authors: Anita Kothari, Charmaine McPherson, Dana Gore, Benita Cohen, Marjorie MacDonald and Shannon L. Sibbald
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2016 14:11
    Content type: Research Published on:

  20. Setting priorities is important in health research given the limited resources available for research. Various guidelines exist to assist in the priority setting process; however, priority setting still faces ...

    Authors: Damian Hacking and Susan Cleary
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2016 14:10
    Content type: Research Published on:

  21. Research performance assessments have proliferated, but research indicators for use amongst clinicians in poorly resourced countries have been ill-defined. The aims of the present paper were to determine a set...

    Authors: Alec J. Ekeroma, Boaz Shulruf, Lesley McCowan, Andrew G. Hill and Tim Kenealy
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2016 14:9
    Content type: Research Published on:

  22. Adoption of evidence-based practices takes place at a glacial place in healthcare. This research will pilot test an innovative implementation strategy – systems consultation –intended to speed the adoption of ...

    Authors: Andrew Quanbeck, Randall T Brown, Aleksandra E Zgierska, Roberta A Johnson, James M Robinson and Nora Jacobson
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2016 14:8
    Content type: Study Protocol Published on:

  23. In Quebec (Canada), the Monteregie Regional Public Health Department has chosen to use health impact assessment (HIA) to support municipalities through a knowledge exchange and collaborative process in order t...

    Authors: Kareen Nour, Sarah Dutilly-Simard, Astrid Brousselle, Pernelle Smits, Jean-Marie Buregeya, Julie Loslier and Jean-Louis Denis
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2016 14:7
    Content type: Study Protocol Published on:

  24. Dissemination bias occurs when only some results emerging from clinical research reach their intended audience in the knowledge translation process. Given that coverage decisions increasingly rely on evidence,...

    Authors: Dimitra Panteli, Alexandra Nolting, Helene Eckhardt, Michael Kulig and Reinhard Busse
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2016 14:6
    Content type: Research Published on:

  25. The aim of this paper is to compare common features and variation in the work of research ethics committees (RECs) in Finland to three other countries – England, Canada, the United States of America (USA) – in...

    Authors: Elina Hemminki
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2016 14:5
    Content type: Research Published on:

  26. Evidence-informed policymaking is more likely if organisations have cultures that promote research use and invest in resources that facilitate staff engagement with research. Measures of organisations’ researc...

    Authors: Steve R Makkar, Tari Turner, Anna Williamson, Jordan Louviere, Sally Redman, Abby Haynes, Sally Green and Sue Brennan
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2016 14:4
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  27. Organ transplantation has become an effective means to extend lives; however, a major obstacle is the lack of availability of cadaveric organs. India has one of the lowest cadaver organ donation rates in the w...

    Authors: Diana K. Vania and Glen E. Randall
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2016 14:3
    Content type: Research Published on:

  28. The interest and activity in measuring and reporting the impact of publicly funded health and medical research has grown rapidly in recent years. Research evaluation typically relies on researchers for much of...

    Authors: L. G. Gordon and N. Bartley
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2016 14:2
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  29. Striving to foster collaboration among countries suffering from maternal and child health (MCH) inequities, the MASCOT project mapped and analyzed the use of research in strategies tackling them in 11 low- and...

    Authors: Emily Vargas, Victor Becerril-Montekio, Miguel Ángel Gonzalez-Block, Patricia Akweongo, Cynthia N. A. Hazel, Maria de Fatima Cuembelo, Felix Limbani, Wanderley Bernardo and Fernando Muñoz
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2016 14:1
    Content type: Research Published on:

    The Erratum to this article has been published in Health Research Policy and Systems 2016 14:26

  30. Research partnerships between high-income countries (HICs) and low- or middle-income countries (LMICs) are a leading model in research capacity strengthening activities. Although numerous frameworks and guidin...

    Authors: Laura Dean, Janet Njelesani, Helen Smith and Imelda Bates
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2015 13:81
    Content type: Research Published on:

  31. In the past decades, various frameworks, methods, indicators, and tools have been developed to assess the needs as well as to monitor and evaluate (needs assessment, monitoring and evaluation; “NaME”) health r...

    Authors: Johanna Huber, Sushil Nepal, Daniel Bauer, Insa Wessels, Martin R Fischer and Claudia Kiessling
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2015 13:80
    Content type: Review Published on:

  33. We developed an evidence service that draws inputs from Health Systems Evidence (HSE), which is a comprehensive database of research evidence about governance, financial and delivery arrangements within health...

    Authors: Michael G Wilson, Jeremy M Grimshaw, R Brian Haynes, Steven E Hanna, Parminder Raina, Russell Gruen, Mathieu Ouimet and John N Lavis
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2015 13:78
    Content type: Research Published on:

  34. The remit of the National Institute for Health Research Public Health Research (PHR) Programme is to evaluate public health interventions, providing new knowledge on the benefits, costs, acceptability and wide...

    Authors: Hannah Dorling, Andrew Cook, Liz Ollerhead and Matt Westmore
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2015 13:77
    Content type: Review Published on:

  35. Collaborative research networks are often touted as a solution for enhancing the translation of knowledge, but questions remain about how to evaluate their impact on health service delivery. This pragmatic sco...

    Authors: Tracy Elizabeth Robinson, Nicole Rankin, Anna Janssen, Deborah Mcgregor, Stuart Grieve and Timothy Shaw
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2015 13:76
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  36. The fast growth of global health initiatives (GHIs) has raised concerns regarding achievement of coherence and synergy among distinct, complementary and sometimes competing activities. Herein, we propose an ap...

    Authors: Fabio Zicker, Miriam Faid, John Reeder and Garry Aslanyan
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2015 13:75
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  37. National level policymaking and implementation includes multiple stakeholders with varied interests and priorities. Multi-stakeholder dialogues (MSDs) can facilitate consensus building through collective ident...

    Authors: Sania Ashraf, Carolyn Moore, Vaibhav Gupta, Anir Chowdhury, Abul K. Azad, Neelu Singh, David Hagan and Alain B. Labrique
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2015 13:74
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  38. With the support of the World Health Organization’s Evidence-Informed Policy Network, knowledge translation platforms have been developed throughout Africa, the Americas, Eastern Europe, and Asia to further ev...

    Authors: Joshua Berman, Collins Mitambo, Beatrice Matanje-Mwagomba, Shiraz Khan, Chiyembekezo Kachimanga, Emily Wroe, Lonia Mwape, Joep J. van Oosterhout, Getrude Chindebvu, Vanessa van Schoor, Lisa M. Puchalski Ritchie, Ulysses Panisset and Damson Kathyola
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2015 13:73
    Content type: Commentary Published on:

  39. In a context where there is an increasing demand to evaluate the outcome of bio-medical research, our work aims to develop a set of indicators to measure the impact of translational cancer research. The object...

    Authors: Frédérique Thonon, Rym Boulkedid, Maria Teixeira, Serge Gottot, Mahasti Saghatchian and Corinne Alberti
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2015 13:72
    Content type: Research Published on:

  40. Peoples-uni (People’s Open Access Education Initiative) was established to help build Public Health capacity in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) through postgraduate level online courses. Graduates are...

    Authors: Richard F Heller, Pasipanodya I Machingura, Baba M Musa, Paramita Sengupta and Puja Myles
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2015 13:71
    Content type: Research Published on:

  41. The ‘Sponsoring National Processes for Evidence-Informed Policy Making in the Health Sector of Developing Countries’ program was launched by the Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research, WHO, in July 20...

    Authors: Zubin Shroff, Bhupinder Aulakh, Lucy Gilson, Irene A. Agyepong, Fadi El-Jardali and Abdul Ghaffar
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2015 13:70
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  42. There are two types of barriers to the utilisation of maternal health and antenatal care (ANC) services, including the supply-side barriers operating at the health facility level and demand-side, affecting the...

    Authors: Muhammad Ashraf Majrooh, Seema Hasnain, Javaid Akram and Arif Siddiqui
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2015 13(Suppl 1):S59
    Content type: Research Published on:

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 13 Supplement 1

  43. The availability of properly trained and motivated providers is a prerequisite for provision of easily accessible healthcare. Pakistan has been listed by the World Health Organization in its World Health Repor...

    Authors: Ali Mohammad Mir, Muhammad Saleem Shaikh, Gul Rashida and Neha Mankani
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2015 13(Suppl 1):S58
    Content type: Research Published on:

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 13 Supplement 1

  44. Pakistan’s maternal and child health indicators remain unacceptably high, with a maternal mortality ratio of 276 per 100,000 live births and a neonatal mortality rate of 55 per 1,000 live births. Provision of ...

    Authors: Muhammad Shahid Ansari, Rabia Manzoor, Nasim Siddiqui and Ahsan Maqbool Ahmed
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2015 13(Suppl 1):S55
    Content type: Research Published on:

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 13 Supplement 1

  45. Long-acting reversible contraceptives, such as the intrauterine device (IUD), remain underutilised in Pakistan with high discontinuation rates. Based on a 24-month prospective client follow-up (nested within a...

    Authors: Waqas Hameed, Syed Khurram Azmat, Muhammad Ishaque, Wajahat Hussain, Erik Munroe, Ghulam Mustafa, Omar Farooq Khan, Ghazunfer Abbas, Safdar Ali, Qaiser Jamshaid Asghar, Sajid Ali, Aftab Ahmed and Hasan Bin Hamza
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2015 13(Suppl 1):S53
    Content type: Research Published on:

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 13 Supplement 1

  46. Pakistan has a high maternal mortality ratio and a low rate of skilled birth attendants (SBAs). To address these two important issues, the Pakistan Maternal Newborn and Child Health (MNCH) programme launched t...

    Authors: Shamsa Zafar, Siham Sikander, Ikhlaq Ahmad, Mansoor Ahmad, Nazia Parveen, Shumaila Saleem, Tayyba Nawaz, Zainab Suleman, Nadia Suleman, Noor ulAin, Ayesha Naeem and Asma Bashir
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2015 13(Suppl 1):S52
    Content type: Research Published on:

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 13 Supplement 1

  47. In 2007, the Government of Pakistan introduced a new cadre of community midwives (CMWs) to address low skilled birth attendance rates in rural areas; this workforce is located in the private-sector. There are ...

    Authors: Zubia Mumtaz, Adrienne V. Levay, Gian S. Jhangri and Afshan Bhatti
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2015 13(Suppl 1):S51
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    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 13 Supplement 1

  48. While Pakistan has made progress toward achieving Millennium Development Goal 5 for maternal health, it is unlikely to achieve the target; further, it is also not on track for Millennium Development Goal 4 reg...

    Authors: Zahida Sarwar, Andrea Cutherell, Arif Noor, Farah Naureen and Jennifer Norman
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2015 13(Suppl 1):S50
    Content type: Commentary Published on:

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 13 Supplement 1

  49. Pakistan faces huge challenges in meeting its international obligations and agreed Millennium Development Goal targets for reducing maternal and child mortality. While there have been reductions in maternal an...

    Authors: Zulfiqar A. Bhutta and Assad Hafeez
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2015 13(Suppl 1):S49
    Content type: Commentary Published on:

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 13 Supplement 1

  50. Factors contributing to Pakistan’s poor progress in reducing reproductive, maternal, newborn, and child health (RMNCH) include its low level of female literacy, gender inequity, political challenges, and extre...

    Authors: Abdul Ghaffar, Shamim Qazi and Iqbal Shah
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2015 13(Suppl 1):S48
    Content type: Commentary Published on:

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 13 Supplement 1

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