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Uncontrolled proliferation of health technologies (HT) is one contributor to the increasing pressure on health systems to adopt new technologies. With limited resources, policy-makers encounter difficulties in...
In order to determine the type and amount of health systems research being conducted within ICDDR,B (also known as the Centre), a leading research institution in Bangladesh, an internal review of all on-going ...
Few methodological studies address the prioritization of clinical topics for the development of Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPGs). The aim of this study was to validate a methodology for Priority Determinati...
The economic benefits of healthcare research require study so that appropriate resources can be allocated to this research, particularly in developing countries. As a first step, we performed a systematic revi...
Data on under five mortality in the twelve countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States show important fluctuations over time due to variations in quality of data, definitions of neonatal deaths and met...
A questionnaire could assist researchers, policymakers, and healthcare providers to describe and monitor changes in efforts to bridge the gaps among research, policy and practice. No questionnaire focused on r...
The reliability and validity of instruments used to survey health-care providers' views about and experiences with research evidence have seldom been examined.
There is ongoing discussion whether the mobile phone radiation causes any health effects. The International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection, the International Committee on Electromagnetic Safet...
Childhood immunisation is recognised worldwide as an essential component of health systems and an indispensable indicator of quality of care for vaccine-preventable diseases. While performance of immunisation ...
Little is known about the process of knowledge translation in low- and middle-income countries. We studied policymaking processes in Mozambique, South Africa and Zimbabwe to understand the factors affecting th...
This article is part of a series written for people responsible for making decisions about health policies and programmes and for those who support these decision makers.
This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 7 Supplement 1
This article is part of a series written for people responsible for making decisions about health policies and programmes and for those who support these decision makers.
This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 7 Supplement 1
This article is part of a series written for people responsible for making decisions about health policies and programmes and for those who support these decision makers.
This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 7 Supplement 1
This article is part of a series written for people responsible for making decisions about health policies and programmes and for those who support these decision makers.
This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 7 Supplement 1
This article is part of a series written for people responsible for making decisions about health policies and programmes and for those who support these decision makers.
This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 7 Supplement 1
This article is part of a series written for people responsible for making decisions about health policies and programmes and for those who support these decision makers.
This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 7 Supplement 1
This article is part of a series written for people responsible for making decisions about health policies and programmes and for those who support these decision makers.
This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 7 Supplement 1
This article is part of a series written for people responsible for making decisions about health policies and programmes and for those who support these decision makers.
This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 7 Supplement 1
This article is part of a series written for people responsible for making decisions about health policies and programmes and for those who support these decision makers.
This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 7 Supplement 1
This article is part of a series written for people responsible for making decisions about health policies and programmes and for those who support these decision makers.
This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 7 Supplement 1
This article is part of a series written for people responsible for making decisions about health policies and programmes and for those who support these decision makers.
This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 7 Supplement 1
This article is part of a series written for people responsible for making decisions about health policies and programmes and for those who support these decision makers.
This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 7 Supplement 1
This article is part of a series written for people responsible for making decisions about health policies and programmes and for those who support these decision makers.
This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 7 Supplement 1
This article is part of a series written for people responsible for making decisions about health policies and programmes and for those who support these decision makers.
This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 7 Supplement 1
This article is part of a series written for people responsible for making decisions about health policies and programmes and for those who support these decision makers.
This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 7 Supplement 1
This article is part of a series written for people responsible for making decisions about health policies and programmes and for those who support these decision makers.
This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 7 Supplement 1
This article is part of a series written for people responsible for making decisions about health policies and programmes and for those who support these decision makers.
This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 7 Supplement 1
This article is part of a series written for people responsible for making decisions about health policies and programmes and for those who support these decision makers.
This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 7 Supplement 1
This article is the Introduction to a series written for people responsible for making decisions about health policies and programmes and for those who support these decision makers. ...
This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 7 Supplement 1
The Federal Ministry of Health of Ethiopia has been publishing Health and Health related indicators of the country annually since 1987 E.C. These indicators have been of high importance in indicating the statu...
Despite the increasing mobilization of researchers and funding organizations around knowledge translation (KT) in Canada and elsewhere, many questions have been only partially answered, particularly in the fie...
Health policy and systems research (HPSR) has been identified as critical to scaling-up interventions to achieve the millennium development goals, but research priority setting exercises often do not address H...
Published practical examples of how to bridge gaps between research, policy and practice in health systems research in Sub Saharan Africa are scarce. The aim of our study was to use a case study approach to an...
Priority setting is about making decisions. Key issues faced during priority setting processes include identifying who makes these decisions, who sets the criteria, and who benefits. The paper reviews the literat...
We studied the prerequisites for Public-Private Partnership (PPP) in the context of the Finnish health care system and more specifically in the field of ophthalmology. PPP can be defined as a more or less perm...
Despite multiple efforts to strengthen health systems in low and middle income countries, intended sustainable improvements in health outcomes have not been shown. To date most priority setting initiatives in ...
Health systems research is being increasingly called upon to support scaling up of disease control interventions and to support rapid health sector change. Yet research capacity building and pay-back take year...
Several influenza pandemics have taken place throughout history and it was assumed that the pandemic would emerge from a new human virus resulting from the adaptation of an avian virus strain. Mexico, since 20...
Increasing rates of HIV have been recorded amongst the Injection Drug User community from all parts of Pakistan. This has mobilized the health authorities into definitive action before there is a general sprea...
Tuberculosis is a major public health problem in Myanmar as in other developing countries. About 73% of TB patients seek care at private general practitioners' clinics before presenting to the public TB centre...
The Integrated Management of Childhood Illness Strategy (IMCI) is effective in improving management of sick children, and thus child survival. It is currently recommended that in-service IMCI case management t...
Despite improving trends, countries in Europe continue to face public-health challenges. This study investigated the priorities of stakeholders for research to meet these challenges.
Community Advisory Boards are now seen as standard practice for clinical vaccine and drug trials worldwide. In the past, most Community Advisory Boards (CABs) were established by activists and lobbyists to mon...
'Evidence-based policy making' for immigrants is a complicated undertaking. In striving toward this goal, federal Canadian partners created the Metropolis Project in 1995 to optimize a two-way transfer of knowled...
The increasing resources available for and number of partners providing health sector aid have stimulated innovations, notably, the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness, which aim to improve aid coordination...
In developing countries building national health research systems is a movement similar to a political leadership contest. Increasingly, political campaigns to select leaders depend less on ideologies and poli...
Globally, health research organizations are called upon to re-examine their policies and practices to more efficiently and effectively address current scientific and social needs, as well as increasing public ...
Clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) are commonly used to support practitioners to improve practice. However many studies have raised concerns about guideline quality. The reasons why guidelines are not develop...
Recognising the potential of clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) to improve practice, one of the strategies of the SEA-ORCHID project was to facilitate the development of evidence-based CPGs, and to support cl...