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  1. Self-care interventions are influencing people’s access to, expectation and understanding of healthcare beyond formal health delivery systems. In doing so, self-care interventions could potentially improve hea...

    Authors: Manjulaa Narasimhan, Carmen H. Logie, Kevin Moody, Jonathan Hopkins, Oswaldo Montoya and Anita Hardon
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2021 19:23
  2. Public policy is increasingly recognized as an important component of physical activity promotion. This paper reports on the current status of physical activity policy development and implementation in four Eu...

    Authors: Peter Gelius, Sven Messing, Sarah Forberger, Jeroen Lakerveld, Fiona Mansergh, Wanda Wendel-Vos, Joanna Zukowska and Catherine Woods
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2021 19:22
  3. With an increasing aging population and a lower ratio between the active and the dependent population, population aging is considered a global social and health challenge, associated with increased demand in h...

    Authors: Demetris Lamnisos, Konstantinos Giannakou and Mihajlo (Michael) Jakovljevic
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2021 19:21
  4. The expectation that climate change will further exacerbate extreme weather events such as heatwaves is of primary concern to policymakers and scientists. Effective governance is fundamental to preparedness fo...

    Authors: Kirsten Vanderplanken, Peter van den Hazel, Michael Marx, Ahmad Zia Shams, Debarati Guha-Sapir and Joris Adriaan Frank van Loenhout
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2021 19:20
  5. Progress towards achieving Universal Health Coverage and institutionalizing healthcare priority setting through health technology assessment (HTA) in the Association of South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN) region ...

    Authors: Manushi Sharma, Yot Teerawattananon, Saudamini Vishwanath Dabak, Wanrudee Isaranuwatchai, Fiona Pearce, Songyot Pilasant, Junainah Sabirin, Mayfong Mayxay, Melissa Guerrero, Nguyen Khanh Phuong, Sudigdo Sastroasmoro and Thant Sin Htoo
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2021 19:19
  6. Using social media for health purposes has attracted much attention over the past decade. Given the challenges of population ageing and changes in national health profile and disease patterns following the epi...

    Authors: Chi-Wai Lui, Zaimin Wang, Ning Wang, Gabriel Milinovich, Hang Ding, Kerrie Mengersen, Hilary Bambrick and Wenbiao Hu
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2021 19:18
  7. People with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) in Nepal are not receiving adequate support to self-manage their chronic conditions, and primary health care can play a key role in the effective manage...

    Authors: Uday Narayan Yadav, Jane Lloyd, Kedar Prasad Baral, Narendra Bhatta, Suresh Mehta and Mark Fort Harris
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2021 19:17
  8. Licences to operate pharmacy premises are issued by statutory regulatory bodies. The Health Institutions and Facilities Act (Act 829) and Health Professions Regulatory Bodies Act (Act 857) regulate pharmacy pr...

    Authors: Augustina Koduah, Reginald Sekyi-Brown, Joseph Kodjo Nsiah Nyoagbe, Daniel Amaning Danquah and Irene Kretchy
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2021 19:16
  9. In April 2016, the Singapore Ministry of Health (MOH) declared War on Diabetes (WoD) to rally a whole-of-nation effort to reduce diabetes burden in the population. This study aimed to explore how this policy h...

    Authors: Lai Meng Ow Yong and Ling Wan Pearline Koe
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2021 19:15
  10. In Uganda and other resource-poor countries, relevant research findings face a tortuous path to translation into policy and routine practice. Implementation science (ImSc) research could facilitate faster tran...

    Authors: Aggrey S. Semeere, Fred C. Semitala, Olivia Lunkuse, Anne Katahoire, Nelson K. Sewankambo and Moses R. Kamya
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2021 19:14
  11. Implementing evidence-informed population health interventions in new contexts often requires adaptations. While the need to adapt interventions to better fit new contexts is recognised, uncertainties remain r...

    Authors: A. Movsisyan, L. Arnold, L. Copeland, R. Evans, H. Littlecott, G. Moore, A. O’Cathain, L. Pfadenhauer, J. Segrott and E. Rehfuess
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2021 19:13
  12. Co-production of research evidence is valued by local government to improve effective decision-making about public services in times of austerity. However, underlying structural issues of power (so-called ‘dar...

    Authors: Peter van der Graaf, Mandy Cheetham, Sam Redgate, Clare Humble and Ashley Adamson
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2021 19:12
  13. The developments in global health, digital technology, and persistent health systems challenges, coupled with global commitments like attainment of universal health coverage, have elevated the role of health r...

    Authors: Juliet Nabyonga-Orem, James Avoka Asamani and Micheal Makanga
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2021 19:11
  14. The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has spread throughout more than 160 countries, infecting millions of people worldwide. To address this health emergency, countries have organized the flow of pr...

    Authors: Mário Fabrício Fleury Rosa, Everton Nunes da Silva, Christina Pacheco, Marcos Vinícius Pereira Diógenes, Christopher Millett, Carlos Augusto Grabois Gadelha and Leonor Maria Pacheco Santos
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2021 19:10
  15. The national Public Health Practice Evaluation Scheme (PHPES) is a response-mode funded evaluation programme operated by the National Institute for Health Research School for Public Health Research (NIHR SPHR)...

    Authors: Peter van der Graaf, Lindsay Blank, Eleanor Holding and Elizabeth Goyder
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2021 19:9
  16. The emergence of patient and public involvement (PPI) in healthcare in the UK can be traced as far back as the 1970s. More recently, campaigns by harmed patients have led to a renewed focus on strengthening PP...

    Authors: Josephine Ocloo, Sara Garfield, Bryony Dean Franklin and Shoba Dawson
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2021 19:8
  17. The Collaboration for Evidence-based Healthcare and Public Health in Africa (CEBHA+) is a research consortium concerned with the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of non-communicable diseases. CEBHA+ seeks t...

    Authors: Lisa M. Pfadenhauer, Tanja Grath, Peter Delobelle, Nasreen Jessani, Joerg J. Meerpohl, Anke Rohwer, Bey-Marrié Schmidt, Ingrid Toews, Ann R. Akiteng, Gertrude Chapotera, Tamara Kredo, Naomi Levitt, Seleman Ntawuyirushintege, Kerstin Sell and Eva A. Rehfuess
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2021 19:7
  18. Globally, insufficient physical activity (PA) is one of the main risk factors for premature mortality. Although insufficient PA is prevalent in nearly every demographic, people with socio-economic disadvantage...

    Authors: Bojana Klepac Pogrmilovic, Sarah Linke and Melinda Craike
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2021 19:6
  19. The COVID-19 pandemic has created urgent demand around the world for knowledge generation about a novel coronavirus, its transmission, and control, putting academic institutions at the frontline of politics. W...

    Authors: Yodi Mahendradhata and Anna Kalbarczyk
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2021 19:5
  20. Health financing systems have a key role in achieving universal health coverage (UHC) across the globe. However, little is known about how best to monitor health financing system progress towards UHC, especial...

    Authors: Mina Anjomshoa, Ali Akbari Sari and Amirhossein Takian
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2021 19:4
  21. In this commentary, we present a follow-up of two articles published in 2017 and 2018 about road traffic crashes, which is an important public health issue in Africa and Burkina Faso. The first article reporte...

    Authors: Christian Dagenais, Michelle Proulx, Esther Mc Sween-Cadieux, Aude Nikiema, Emmanuel Bonnet, Valéry Ridde and Paul-André Somé
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2021 19:3
  22. In September 2016, South Africa (SA) began implementing the universal-test-and-treat (UTT) policy in hopes of attaining the UNAIDS 90-90-90 targets by 2020. The SA National Department of Health provided a furt...

    Authors: Dorina Onoya, Idah Mokhele, Tembeka Sineke, Bulelwa Mngoma, Aneesa Moolla, Marnie Vujovic, Jacob Bor, Jonas Langa and Matthew P. Fox
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2021 19:2
  23. Progress has been made in recent years to bring attention to the challenges faced by school-aged girls around managing menstruation in educational settings that lack adequate physical environments and social s...

    Authors: Marni Sommer, Bethany A. Caruso, Belen Torondel, Elodie C. Warren, Brooke Yamakoshi, Jackie Haver, Jeanne Long, Thérèse Mahon, Ella Nalinponguit, Neville Okwaro and Penelope A. Phillips-Howard
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2021 19:1
  24. Producing evidence in epidemics is crucial to control the current epidemic and prevent its recurrence in the future. Data must be collected and analyzed rapidly to recognize the most efficient and feasible met...

    Authors: Bahareh Yazdizadeh, Reza Majdzadeh, Ayat Ahmadi and Bita Mesgarpour
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2020 18:136
  25. Lung health is a critical area for research in sub-Saharan Africa. The International Multidisciplinary Programme to Address Lung Health and TB in Africa (IMPALA) is a collaborative programme that seeks to fill...

    Authors: Claire Jensen, Emma Heneine, Brenda Mungai, Violet Murunga, Hleziwe Hara, Rose Oronje, Angela Obasi, Bertie Squire and Eliya Zulu
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2020 18:135
  26. Knowledge mobilisation (KM) is a vital strategy in efforts to improve public health policy and practice. Linear models describing knowledge transfer and translation have moved towards multi-directional and com...

    Authors: Abby Haynes, Lucie Rychetnik, Diane Finegood, Michelle Irving, Louise Freebairn and Penelope Hawe
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2020 18:134
  27. Midwifery plays a vital role in the quality of care as well as rapid and sustained reductions in maternal and newborn mortality. Like most other sub-Saharan African countries, the Democratic Republic of Congo ...

    Authors: Amuda Baba, Tim Martineau, Sally Theobald, Paluku Sabuni, Marie Muziakukwa Nobabo, Ajaruva Alitimango, John Kisembo Katabuka and Joanna Raven
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2020 18:133
  28. The global health community has recognised the importance of defining and measuring the effective coverage of health interventions and their implementation strength to monitor progress towards global mortality...

    Authors: Lara M. E. Vaz, Lynne Franco, Tanya Guenther, Kelsey Simmons, Samantha Herrera and Stephen N. Wall
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2020 18:132
  29. The recent article by Nagi et al. (Health Res Policy Syst 18:37, 2020) considerably underestimates the size of the global health research community in Canada as well as its geographical distribution, its breadth ...

    Authors: Theresa W. Gyorkos
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2020 18:130

    The Letter to the Editor to this article has been published in Health Research Policy and Systems 2020 18:129

    The original article was published in Health Research Policy and Systems 2020 18:129

  30. Authors: Ranjana Nagi, Susan Rogers Van Katwyk and Steven J. Hoffman
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2020 18:129

    The Commentary to this article has been published in Health Research Policy and Systems 2020 18:130

    The original article was published in Health Research Policy and Systems 2020 18:130

  31. Blood donation policy in Canada for gay, bisexual and other men who have had sex with men (gbMSM) has changed progressively in the last decade from indefinite deferral to 3-month deferral from last male-to-mal...

    Authors: Elisabeth Vesnaver, Mindy Goldman, Sheila O’Brien, Paul MacPherson, Terrie Butler-Foster, Don Lapierre, Joanne Otis, Dana V. Devine, Marc Germain, Andrew Rosser, Richard MacDonagh, Taylor Randall, William Osbourne-Sorrell, Broderic Clement-Thorne, Taim Bilal Al-Bakri, Kyle A. Rubini…
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2020 18:131
  32. Translating clinical guidelines into routine clinical practice is mandatory to achieve population level improvement of health. Emergence of specific therapy for acute stroke yielded the ‘time is brain’ concept...

    Authors: Szilvia Harsanyi, Nandor Balogh, Laszlo Robert Kolozsvari, Laszlo Mezes, Csaba Papp and Judit Zsuga
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2020 18:128
  33. Knowledge translation (KT) platforms are organisations, initiatives and networks that focus on supporting evidence-informed policy-making at least in part about the health-system arrangements that determine wh...

    Authors: Arun C. R. Partridge, Cristián Mansilla, Harkanwal Randhawa, John N. Lavis, Fadi El-Jardali and Nelson K. Sewankambo
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2020 18:127
  34. Non-communicable diseases contribute to 62% of total deaths in India; of concern are the preventable premature deaths, which account for a staggering 48% of mortality. The objective of this study was to establ...

    Authors: Ishu Kataria, Mariam Siddiqui, Theresa Gillespie, Michael Goodman, Preet K. Dhillon, Carla Bann and Linda Squiers
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2020 18:126
  35. Hearing loss (HL) affects 466 million people of all ages worldwide, with a rapidly increasing prevalence, and therefore requires appropriate public health policies. Multi-disciplinary approaches that make use ...

    Authors: Giorgos Dritsakis, Lyubov Trenkova, Mariola Śliwińska-Kowalska, Dario Brdarić, Niels Henrik Pontoppidan, Panagiotis Katrakazas and Doris-Eva Bamiou
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2020 18:125
  36. An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via the original article.

    Authors: Vicki Brown, Huong Tran, Miranda Blake, Rachel Laws and Marj Moodie
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2020 18:124

    The original article was published in Health Research Policy and Systems 2020 18:115

  37. Terms used to describe government-led resource withdrawal from ineffective and unsafe medical services, including ‘rationing’ and ‘disinvestment’, have tended to be used interchangeably, despite having distinc...

    Authors: Mark Embrett, Glen E. Randall, John N. Lavis and Michelle L. Dion
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2020 18:123
  38. Developing research capability and capacity within the healthcare professions is a challenge throughout diverse international settings. Within England, the National Institute for Health Research aimed to addre...

    Authors: J. Nightingale, S. Fowler-Davis, K. Grafton, S. Kelly, C. Langham, R. Lewis, B. Bianco and D. Harrop
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2020 18:122
  39. While HIV programmes have started millions of persons on life-saving antiretroviral therapy in Africa, longitudinal health information systems are frail and, therefore, data about long-term survival is often i...

    Authors: Njekwa Mukamba, Laura K. Beres, Chanda Mwamba, Jeanna Wallenta Law, Stephanie M. Topp, Sandra Simbeza, Kombatende Sikombe, Nancy Padian, Charles B. Holmes, Elvin H. Geng and Izukanji Sikazwe
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2020 18:121
  40. Numerous models, tools and frameworks have been produced to improve the sustainability of evidence-based interventions. Due to the vast number available, choosing the most appropriate one is increasingly diffi...

    Authors: L. Lennox, A. Linwood-Amor, L. Maher and J. Reed
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2020 18:120
  41. An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via the original article.

    Authors: A. Metin Gülmezoglu, Anne Ammerdorffer, Manjulaa Narasimhan, Alyce N. Wilson, Joshua P. Vogel, Lale Say and Özge Tunçalp
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2020 18:119

    The original article was published in Health Research Policy and Systems 2020 18:107

  42. While known efficacious preventive health interventions exist, the current capacity to scale up these interventions is limited. In recent years, much attention has focussed on developing frameworks and methods...

    Authors: Karen Lee, Femke van Nassau, Anne Grunseit, Kathleen Conte, Andrew Milat, Luke Wolfenden and Adrian Bauman
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2020 18:118
  43. Large-scale partnerships between universities and health services are widely seen as vehicles for bridging the evidence–practice gap and for accelerating the adoption of new evidence in healthcare. Recently, d...

    Authors: Tracy Robinson, Cate Bailey, Heather Morris, Prue Burns, Angela Melder, Charlotte Croft, Dmitrios Spyridonidis, Halyo Bismantara, Helen Skouteris and Helena Teede
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2020 18:117
  44. Countries are transitioning assets and functions from polio eradication to integrated immunization and surveillance activities. We assessed the extent of linkages between and perceptions of National Immunizati...

    Authors: Sharon A. Greene, Blanche-Philomene Melanga Anya, Humayun Asghar, Irtaza A. Chaudhri, S. Deblina Datta, Morgane E. Donadel, Koffi Isidore Kouadio, Abigail M. Shefer and Kathleen F. Cavallaro
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2020 18:116
  45. Translating research evidence into practice is challenging and, to date, there are relatively few public health interventions that have been effectively and cost-effectively implemented and delivered at scale....

    Authors: Brown Vicki, Tran Huong, Blake Miranda, Laws Rachel and Moodie Marj
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2020 18:115

    The Correction to this article has been published in Health Research Policy and Systems 2020 18:124

  46. Policy dialogue for health policies has started to gain importance in recent years, especially for complex issues such as health financing. Moroccan health financing has faced several challenges during the las...

    Authors: El Houcine Akhnif, Hafid Hachri, Abdelouahab Belmadani, Awad Mataria and Maryam Bigdeli
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2020 18:114
  47. There is no standardised protocol for developing clinically relevant guideline questions. We aimed to create such a protocol and to apply it to developing a new guideline.

    Authors: Samantha Chakraborty, Bianca Brijnath, Jacinta Dermentzis and Danielle Mazza
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2020 18:113
  48. Rapid reviews (RRs) are useful products to healthcare policy-makers and other stakeholders, who require timely evidence. Therefore, it is important to assess how well RRs convey useful information in a format ...

    Authors: Chantelle Garritty, Candyce Hamel, Mona Hersi, Claire Butler, Zarah Monfaredi, Adrienne Stevens, Barbara Nussbaumer-Streit, Wei Cheng and David Moher
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2020 18:112
  49. Over the past decade, Research Translation Centres (RTCs) have been established in many countries. These centres (sometimes referred to as Academic Health Science Centres) are designed to bring universities an...

    Authors: Tracy Robinson, Helen Skouteris, Prue Burns, Angela Melder, Cate Bailey, Charlotte Croft, Dmitrios Spyridonidis and Helena Teede
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2020 18:111
  50. Healthcare policy-makers are expected to develop ‘evidence-based’ policies. Yet, studies have consistently shown that, like clinical practitioners, they need to combine many varied kinds of evidence and inform...

    Authors: John Gabbay, Andrée le May, Catherine Pope, Emer Brangan, Ailsa Cameron, Jonathan H. Klein and Lesley Wye
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2020 18:110