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Health research priority setting processes assist researchers and policymakers in effectively targeting research that has the greatest potential public health benefit. Many different approaches to health resea...
Examining vulnerabilities within our current healthcare system we propose borrowing two tools from the fields of engineering and design: a) Reason's system approach [1] and b) User-centered design [2, 3]. Both ap...
The emergent international practice of involving consumers in health research is driven, in part, by the growing share of health research that can only be applied in and emerge from knowledge that is shaped by...
Atoifi Adventist Hospital is a 90 bed general hospital in East Kwaio, Malaita, Solomon Islands providing services to the population of subsistence villagers of the region. Health professionals at the hospital ...
Centuries of scientific advances and developments in biomedical sciences have brought us a long way to understanding and managing disease processes, by reducing them to simplified cause-effect models. For most...
Switzerland introduces a DRG (Diagnosis Related Groups) based system for hospital financing in 2012 in order to increase efficiency and transparency of Swiss health care. DRG-based hospital reimbursement is no...
The last decade has seen the evaluation of health research pay more and more attention to societal use and benefits of research in addition to scientific quality, both in qualitative and quantitative ways. Thi...
Although multidisciplinary and team-based approaches are increasingly acknowledged as necessary to address some of the most pressing contemporary health challenges, many researchers struggle with a lack of inf...
Decision support in health systems is a highly difficult task, due to the inherent complexity of the process and structures involved.
When evaluating health technologies with insufficient scientific evidence, only innovative potentials can be assessed. A Regional policy initiative linking the governance of health innovations to the developme...
In the Netherlands municipalities are legally required to draw up a Local Health Policy Memorandum every four years. This policy memorandum should be based on (local) epidemiological research as performed by t...
This paper presents the first comprehensive effort to provide an overview of the research associated with the World Health Organization (WHO) headquarters in 2006/07.
The poor in low and middle income countries have limited access to health services due to limited purchasing power, residence in underserved areas, and inadequate health literacy. This produces significant gap...
In South Africa the need to integrate HIV, TB and STI programmes has been recognised at a policy and organisation level; the challenge is now one of translating policies into relevant actions and monitoring im...
Weaknesses in health systems contribute to a failure to improve health outcomes in developing countries, despite increased official development assistance. Changes in the demands on health systems, as well as ...
Africa's progress depends on her capacity to generate, adapt, and use scientific knowledge to meet regional health and development needs. Yet, Africa's higher education institutions that are mandated to foster...
Sharing knowledge and experience internationally can provide valuable information, and comparative research can make an important contribution to knowledge about health care and cost-effective use of resources...
Policy analysis is often retrospective and not well suited to helping policy makers decide what to do; in contrast prospective policy analysis seeks to assist in formulating responses to challenging public pol...
Assessing the consequences of research is an increasingly important task in research and innovation policy. This paper takes a broader view of those consequences than the conventional economic approach, placin...
Tobacco control is an area where the translation of evidence into policy would seem to be straightforward, given the wealth of epidemiological, behavioural and other types of research available. Yet, even here...
The preparation of HTA reports requires a great deal of time, effort and resource, and there is a desire to improve efficiency, avoid duplication of effort and facilitate the transfer of knowledge between coun...
Open collaboration and sharing of information among scientists at scientific meetings can foster innovation and discovery. However, such sharing can be at odds with potential patenting and commercialization ob...
Through the nearly three decades that have passed since the Alma Ata conference on Primary Health Care, a wide range of global health initiatives and ideas have been advocated to improve the health of people l...
Health research is increasing in Africa, but most resources are currently chanelled towards infectious diseases and health system development. While infectious diseases remain a heavy burden for some African c...
Little is known about how to implement promising small-scale projects to reduce reproductive ill health and HIV vulnerability in young people on a large scale. This evaluation documents and explains how a part...
Health research systems consist of diverse groups who have some role in health research, but the boundaries around such a system are not clear-cut. To explore what various stakeholders need we reviewed the lit...
There were 59,500 Children in out-of-home care in England in 2008. Research into this population points to poor health and quality of life outcomes over the transition to adult independence. This undesirable o...
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 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