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  1. Mental health disorders (MHDs) constitute a large and growing disease burden in Europe, although they typically receive less attention and research funding than other non-communicable diseases (NCDs). This stu...

    Authors: Karen Berg Brigham, Meryl Darlington, John S. F. Wright, Grant Lewison, Panos Kanavos and Isabelle Durand-Zaleski
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2016 14:39
  2. The European-study on Quantifying Utility of Investment in Protection from Tobacco (EQUIPT) project aimed to study transferability of economic evidence by co-creating the Tobacco Return On Investment (ROI) too...

    Authors: Zoltan Vokó, Kei Long Cheung, Judit Józwiak-Hagymásy, Silke Wolfenstetter, Teresa Jones, Celia Muñoz, Silvia M.A.A. Evers, Mickaël Hiligsmann, Hein de Vries and Subhash Pokhrel
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2016 14:38
  3. Program evaluation is widely recognized in the international humanitarian sector as a means to make interventions and policies more evidence based, equitable, and accountable. Yet, little is known about the wa...

    Authors: Léna D’Ostie-Racine, Christian Dagenais and Valéry Ridde
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2016 14:37
  4. While health research is considered essential for improving health worldwide, it remains unclear how it is best organized to contribute to health. This study examined research that was part of a Ghanaian-Dutch...

    Authors: Maarten Olivier Kok, John Owusu Gyapong, Ivan Wolffers, David Ofori-Adjei and Joost Ruitenberg
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2016 14:36
  5. The most recent reports on global trends in neonatal mortality continue to show alarmingly slow progress on improvements in neonatal mortality rates, with sub-Saharan Africa still lagging behind. This emphasis...

    Authors: Agnes Rwashana Semwanga, Sarah Nakubulwa and Taghreed Adam
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2016 14:35
  6. Scientific collaboration networks are a hallmark of contemporary academic research. Researchers are no longer independent players, but members of teams that bring together complementary skills and multidiscipl...

    Authors: Bruna de Paula Fonseca e Fonseca, Ricardo Barros Sampaio, Marcus Vinicius de Araújo Fonseca and Fabio Zicker
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2016 14:34
  7. The cooperation of actors across policy fields and the need for cross-sector cooperation as well as recommendations on how to implement cross-sector cooperation have been addressed in many national and interna...

    Authors: Riitta-Maija Hämäläinen, Arja R. Aro, Cathrine Juel Lau, Diana Rus, Liliana Cori and Ahmed M. Syed
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2016 14:33
  8. Local and national governments have implemented sector-specific policies to support economic development through innovation, entrepreneurship and knowledge exchange. Supported by the Welsh Government through t...

    Authors: Brian Lee Perkins, Rob Garlick, Jodie Wren, Jon Smart, Julie Kennedy, Phil Stephens, Gwyn Tudor, Jonathan Bisson and David V. Ford
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2016 14:32
  9. There is a need to understand scientific evidence in light of the context within which it will be used. Deliberative dialogues are a promising strategy that can be used to meet this evidence interpretation cha...

    Authors: Jennifer A. Boyko, Anita Kothari and C. Nadine Wathen
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2016 14:31
  10. The West African Health Organization (WAHO) implemented a research development program in West Africa during 2009–2013 using the Knowledge for Better Health Research Capacity Development Framework, developed b...

    Authors: Jude Aidam and Issiaka Sombié
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2016 14:30
  11. 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
  12. 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
  13. 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
  14. 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

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

  15. 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
  16. 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
  17. 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
  18. 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
  19. 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
  20. 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
  21. 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
  22. 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
  23. 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
  24. 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

    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

  25. 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
  26. 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
  27. 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
  28. 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
  29. 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
  30. 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
  31. 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
  32. 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
  33. 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
  34. 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
  35. 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
  36. 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
  37. 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
  38. 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

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

  39. 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
  40. 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
  41. 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
  42. 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
  43. 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
  44. 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
  45. 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
  46. 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
  47. 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
  48. 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