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  1. As India’s accredited social health activist (ASHA) community health worker (CHW) programme enters its second decade, we take stock of the research undertaken and whether it examines the health systems interfa...

    Authors: Kerry Scott, Asha S. George and Rajani R. Ved
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2019 17:29
    Content type: Review Published on:

  2. The successful initiation of people living with HIV on antiretroviral treatment (ART) in South Africa fomented challenges of poor retention in care and suboptimal adherence to medication. Following evidence of...

    Authors: Ferdinand C. Mukumbang, Zaida Orth and Brian van Wyk
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2019 17:28
    Content type: Review Published on:

  3. Within the context of the growing burden of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) globally, there is limited evidence on how researchers have explored the response to chronic health needs in the context of health p...

    Authors: Lana Meiqari, Tammam Al-Oudat, Dirk Essink, Fedde Scheele and Pamela Wright
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2019 17:27
    Content type: Review Published on:

  4. There is increased interest in using narratives or storytelling to influence health policies. We aimed to systematically review the evidence on the use of narratives to impact the health policy-making process.

    Authors: Racha Fadlallah, Fadi El-Jardali, Mohamed Nomier, Nour Hemadi, Khurram Arif, Etienne V. Langlois and Elie A. Akl
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2019 17:26
    Content type: Review Published on:

  5. Although research participants are generally interested in receiving results from studies in which they participate, health researchers rarely communicate study findings to participants. The present study was ...

    Authors: Christopher R. Long, Rachel S. Purvis, Elizabeth Flood-Grady, Kim S. Kimminau, Robert L. Rhyne, Mark R. Burge, M. Kathryn Stewart, Amy J. Jenkins, Laura P. James and Pearl A. McElfish
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2019 17:25
    Content type: Research Published on:

  6. The persistence of health inequities is a wicked problem for which there is strong evidence of causal roots in the maldistribution of power, resources and money within and between countries. Though the evidenc...

    Authors: Katrina Marie Plamondon and Julia Pemberton
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2019 17:24
    Content type: Review Published on:

  7. There are an estimated 80,100 female sex workers (FSWs) in Ukraine, of whom 7% are living with HIV. Early HIV diagnosis continues to be a public health priority in Ukraine as only approximately 54% of people l...

    Authors: Anna Tokar, Jacob Osborne, Kateryna Slobodianiuk, Dirk Essink, Jeffrey V. Lazarus and Jacqueline E. W. Broerse
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2019 17:23
    Content type: Research Published on:

  9. To progress towards universal health coverage (UHC), each country will have to develop its systemic learning capacity. This study aims at documenting how, across time, learning can feed into a UHC policy proce...

    Authors: E. Akhnif, J. Macq and Bruno Meessen
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2019 17:21
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  10. Fragility can have a negative effect on health systems and people’s health, and poses considerable challenges for actors implementing health programmes. However, how such programmes, in turn, affect the overal...

    Authors: Séverine Erismann, Sibel Gürler, Verena Wieland, Helen Prytherch, Nino Künzli, Jürg Utzinger and Bernadette Peterhans
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2019 17:20
    Content type: Research Published on:

  11. The English National Institute for Health Research Clinical Research Network first established Hyperacute Stroke Research Centres (HSRCs) in 2010 to support multicentre hyperacute (< 9 h) and complex stroke re...

    Authors: Thompson G. Robinson, Xia Wang, Alice C. Durham, Gary A. Ford, Joy Liao, Sine Littlewood, Christine Roffe, Philip White, John Chalmers and Craig S. Anderson
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2019 17:19
    Content type: Research Published on:

  13. Health system expenditure on cancer drugs is rising rapidly in many OECD countries given the costly new treatments and increased rates of use due to a growing and ageing population. These factors put considera...

    Authors: Colene Bentley, Stuart Peacock, Julia Abelson, Michael M. Burgess, Olivier Demers-Payette, Holly Longstaff, Laura Tripp, John N. Lavis and Michael G. Wilson
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2019 17:17
    Content type: Research Published on:

  14. The need for research-based knowledge to inform health policy formulation and implementation is a chronic global concern impacting health systems functioning and impeding the provision of quality healthcare fo...

    Authors: Amanda Edwards, Virginia Zweigenthal and Jill Olivier
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2019 17:16
    Content type: Review Published on:

  15. Health in All Policies (HiAP) is an intersectoral approach that facilitates decision-making among policy-makers to maximise positive health impacts of other public policies. Kenya, as a member of WHO, has comm...

    Authors: Joy Mauti, Lara Gautier, Jan-Walter De Neve, Claudia Beiersmann, Jale Tosun and Albrecht Jahn
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2019 17:15
    Content type: Research Published on:

  16. This paper describes the trial of a novel intervention, Supporting Policy In health with evidence from Research: an Intervention Trial (SPIRIT). It examines (1) the feasibility of delivering this kind of progr...

    Authors: Anna Williamson, Daniel Barker, Sally Green, Catherine D’Este, Huw T. O. Davies, Louisa Jorm, Anthony Shakeshaft, Sian Rudge and Sally Redman
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2019 17:14
    Content type: Research Published on:

  17. Tobacco use and road traffic injuries are major public health problems in Turkey. During the last decade, the former issue received political priority in the country, while the latter did not despite the immen...

    Authors: Connie Hoe, Daniela C. Rodriguez, Yeşim Üzümcüoğlu and Adnan A. Hyder
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2019 17:13
    Content type: Research Published on:

  18. Evidence-informed Decision-making in Nutrition and Health (EVIDENT) is an international partnership that seeks to identify information needs in nutrition and health in Africa and build local capacity in knowle...

    Authors: Pankti Motani, Anais Van de Walle, Richmond Aryeetey and Roosmarijn Verstraeten
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2019 17:12
    Content type: Research Published on:

  19. Globally, good health system performance has resulted from continuous reform, including adaptation of Decentralisation by Devolution policies, for example, the Direct Health Facility Financing (DHFF). Generall...

    Authors: Ntuli A. Kapologwe, Albino Kalolo, Stephen M. Kibusi, Zainab Chaula, Anna Nswilla, Thomas Teuscher, Kyaw Aung and Josephine Borghi
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2019 17:11
    Content type: Study Protocol Published on:

  20. While the European Union is striving to become the ‘Innovation Union’, there remains a lack of quantifiable indicators to compare and benchmark regional innovation clusters. To address this issue, a HealthTIES...

    Authors: Laurel D. Edmunds, Silvia Gluderer, Pavel V. Ovseiko, Roel Kamerling, Jacqueline Ton, Laura Vis, Mario Jenni, Gregory Tutton, Helen Lawton-Smith, Márta Völgyiné Nadabán, Máté Rab, Jon Rees, John Anson, Alexander D. Rushforth, Maxine Allen, Alastair M. Buchan…
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2019 17:10
    Content type: Research Published on:

  21. All health systems struggle to meet health needs within constrained resources. This is especially true for low-income countries. It is critical that they can learn from wider contexts in order to improve their...

    Authors: Sophie Witter, Ian Anderson, Peter Annear, Abiodun Awosusi, Nitin N. Bhandari, Nouria Brikci, Blandine Binachon, Tata Chanturidze, Katherine Gilbert, Charity Jensen, Tomas Lievens, Barbara McPake, Snehashish Raichowdhury and Alex Jones
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2019 17:9
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  22. The current scholarly focus on implementation science is meant to ensure that public health interventions are effectively embedded in their settings. Part of this conversation includes understanding how to sup...

    Authors: David Roger Walugembe, Shannon Sibbald, Marlene Janzen Le Ber and Anita Kothari
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2019 17:8
    Content type: Commentary Published on:

  23. The late 1990s and early 2000s have seen a growth in north–south health research partnerships resulting from scientific developments such as those in genetic studies and development of statistical techniques a...

    Authors: Tulani Francis L. Matenga, Joseph Mumba Zulu, J. Hope Corbin and Oliver Mweemba
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2019 17:7
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  24. Currently, thanks to the growing number of public database resources, most evidence on planning and management, healthcare institutions, policies and practices is becoming available to everyone. However, one o...

    Authors: Mireya Martínez-García, Maite Vallejo, Enrique Hernández-Lemus and Jorge Alberto Álvarez-Díaz
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2019 17:6
    Content type: Research Published on:

  25. Newer technologies, such as smartphones and social networking sites, offer new opportunities for health promotion interventions. There is evidence to show that these technologies can be effectively and accepta...

    Authors: Cassandra J. C. Wright, Joanna Schwarzman, Paul M. Dietze, Belinda Crockett and Megan S. C. Lim
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2019 17:5
    Content type: Research Published on:

  26. Several studies on decentralisation have used the ‘decision space’ approach to assess the breadth of space made available to decision-makers at lower levels of the health system. However, in order to better un...

    Authors: Harvy Joy Liwanag and Kaspar Wyss
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2019 17:4
    Content type: Research Published on:

  27. Policy- and decision-makers seek to improve the quality of care in the health sector and therefore aim to improve quality through appropriate policies. Higher quality of care will satisfy service providers and...

    Authors: Masoud Behzadifar, Nicola Luigi Bragazzi, Morteza Arab-Zozani, Ahad Bakhtiari, Meysam Behzadifar, Tina Beyranvand, Negar Yousefzadeh, Samad Azari, Haniye Sadat Sajadi, Mandana Saki, Maryam Saran and Hasan Abolghasem Gorji
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2019 17:3
    Content type: Review Published on:

  28. Immunisation is a cost-effective and highly efficacious public health intervention, saving over 20 million lives in the last two decades due to decreases in childhood bacterial infections. In the Lao People’s ...

    Authors: Vanphanom Sychareun, Lucy Rowlands, Phoutsomphong Vilay, Jo Durham and Alison Morgan
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2019 17:2
    Content type: Research Published on:

  29. Innovative approaches are needed to maximise the uptake and sustainment of evidence-based practices in a variety of health service contexts. This protocol describes a study that will seek to characterise the p...

    Authors: Alex R. Dopp, Kathryn E. Parisi, Sean A. Munson and Aaron R. Lyon
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2019 17:1
    Content type: Study Protocol Published on:

  30. Despite calls for the application of complex systems science in empirical studies of health promotion, there are very few examples. The aim of this paper was to use a complex systems approach to examine the ke...

    Authors: Lori Baugh Littlejohns, Fran Baum, Angela Lawless and Toby Freeman
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2018 16:126
    Content type: Research Published on:

  31. A better understanding of the conditions under which performance indicators can be used to improve accountability for outcomes and promote quality improvement could help policy-makers develop more effective pe...

    Authors: Karen Gardner, Sue Olney and Helen Dickinson
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2018 16:125
    Content type: Opinion Published on:

  32. The complexity and increasing burden of zoonotic diseases create challenges for the health systems of developing nations. Public health systems must therefore be prepared to face existing and future disease th...

    Authors: Sandul Yasobant, Walter Bruchhausen, Deepak Saxena and Timo Falkenberg
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2018 16:124
    Content type: Study Protocol Published on:

    The Correction to this article has been published in Health Research Policy and Systems 2019 17:78

  33. The uptake of findings from sexual and reproductive health and rights research into policy-making remains a complex and non-linear process. Different models of research utilisation and guidelines to maximise t...

    Authors: Emilomo Ogbe, Dirk Van Braeckel, Marleen Temmerman, Elin C. Larsson, Ines Keygnaert, Wilson De los Reyes Aragón, Feng Cheng, Gunta Lazdane, Diane Cooper, Simukai Shamu, Peter Gichangi, Sónia Dias, Hazel Barrett, Anne Nobels, Kaiyan Pei, Anna Galle…
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2018 16:123
    Content type: Research Published on:

  34. Implementing research findings into healthcare policy is an enduring challenge made even more difficult when policies must be developed and implemented with the help and support of multiple ideas, agendas and ...

    Authors: Pernelle Smits, Jean-Louis Denis, Johanne Préval, Evert Lindquist and Miguel Aguirre
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2018 16:122
    Content type: Commentary Published on:

  35. Clearly stated national recommendations for physical activity (PA) are available in many nations. Yet, their impact on national level policy-making might be considered modest at best. This paper analyses the a...

    Authors: Alfred Rütten, Karim Abu-Omar, Sven Messing, Mayra Weege, Klaus Pfeifer, Wolfgang Geidl and Verena Hartung
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2018 16:121
    Content type: Commentary Published on:

  37. The perspectives of mental health consumers and carers are increasingly recognised as important to the development and conduct of research. However, research directions are still most commonly developed withou...

    Authors: Michelle A. Banfield, Alyssa R. Morse, Amelia Gulliver and Kathleen M. Griffiths
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2018 16:119
    Content type: Research Published on:

  38. The potential use, influence and impact of health research is seldom fully realised. This stubborn problem has caused burgeoning global interest in research aiming to address the implementation ‘gap’ and facto...

    Authors: Kate Beckett, Michelle Farr, Anita Kothari, Lesley Wye and Andrée le May
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2018 16:118
    Content type: Opinion Published on:

  39. Participatory research approaches improve the use of evidence in policy, programmes and practice. Few studies have addressed ways to scale up participatory research for wider system improvement or the intensit...

    Authors: Alison Laycock, Gillian Harvey, Nikki Percival, Frances Cunningham, Jodie Bailie, Veronica Matthews, Kerry Copley, Louise Patel and Ross Bailie
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2018 16:117
    Content type: Research Published on:

  40. A review of research priorities completed by WHO technical units was undertaken. Results of the mapping were recorded in a database that was used to generate analysis and compare research priorities and the di...

    Authors: R. F. Terry, E. Charles, B. Purdy and A. Sanford
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2018 16:116
    Content type: Research Published on:

  41. India recently launched the largest universal health coverage scheme in the world to address the gaps in providing healthcare to its population. Health technology assessment (HTA) has been recognised as a tool...

    Authors: Saudamini Vishwanath Dabak, Songyot Pilasant, Abha Mehndiratta, Laura Emily Downey, Francoise Cluzeau, Kalipso Chalkidou, Alia Cynthia Gonzales Luz, Sitaporn Youngkong and Yot Teerawattananon
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2018 16:115
    Content type: Research Published on:

  42. The European Union and Latin America and the Caribbean regions have enjoyed privileged relations since the first bi-regional Summit of Heads of State and Government, held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 1999, an...

    Authors: Teresa Corral, Mónica de Román, Antonio J. Gómez-Núñez, Bruno Mourenza, Cristiane Quental, Stephanie Splett-Rudolf and Rafael de Andrés
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2018 16:114
    Content type: Commentary Published on:

  43. Deliberative dialogues are increasingly being used, particularly on the African continent. They are a promising interactive knowledge translation strategy that brings together and leverages the knowledge of di...

    Authors: Esther Mc Sween-Cadieux, Christian Dagenais and Valéry Ridde
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2018 16:113
    Content type: Research Published on:

  45. In 2016, three researchers published a report where they concluded that systematic reviews from my institution, the Norwegian Knowledge Centre for the Health Services, are of little use for health policy decis...

    Authors: Atle Fretheim
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2018 16:111
    Content type: Letter to the Editor Published on:

    The original article was published in Health Research Policy and Systems 2016 14:15

  46. The importance of accessible mental health treatment is a global concern, particularly when one in five people will experience a mental health problem in their lifespan. This is no less important in Ghana; how...

    Authors: Eric Badu, Anthony Paul O’Brien and Rebecca Mitchell
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2018 16:110
    Content type: Review Published on:

  47. Cross-sectoral, multidisciplinary partnership research is considered one of the most effective means of facilitating research-informed policy and practice, particularly for addressing complex problems such as ...

    Authors: Sonia Wutzke, Samantha Rowbotham, Abby Haynes, Penelope Hawe, Paul Kelly, Sally Redman, Seanna Davidson, Jackie Stephenson, Marge Overs and Andrew Wilson
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2018 16:109
    Content type: Research Published on:

  48. Decisions regarding the regulation of individual medicines differ from country to country. In the case of Relenza, Mulinari and Davis (Health Res Policy Syst 15:93, 2017) have suggested that these inconsistencies...

    Authors: Tracy Merlin
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2018 16:108
    Content type: Commentary Published on:

    The original article was published in Health Research Policy and Systems 2018 16:98

    The original article was published in Health Research Policy and Systems 2018 16:100

  50. The Swedish Medical Products Agency (MPA) objects to the fact that we occasionally refer to one of its senior ex-employees by name. However, names of individual MPA assessors, Food and Drug Administration (FDA...

    Authors: Shai Mulinari and Courtney Davis
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2018 16:98
    Content type: Letter to the Editor Published on:

    The Commentary to this article has been published in Health Research Policy and Systems 2018 16:108

    The original article was published in Health Research Policy and Systems 2018 16:100

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