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  1. In striving to contribute towards improved health outcomes, health research institutions generate and accumulate huge volumes of relevant but often underutilized data. This study explores activities undertaken...

    Authors: David Roger Walugembe, Suzanne N. Kiwanuka, Joseph K. B. Matovu, Elizeus Rutebemberwa and Laura Reichenbach
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2015 13:26
  2. International policy suggests that collaborative priority setting (CPS) between researchers and end users of research should shape the research agenda, and can increase capacity to address the research-practic...

    Authors: Jo Cooke, Steven Ariss, Christine Smith and Jennifer Read
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2015 13:25
  3. Health technology assessment and healthcare decision-making are based on multiple criteria and evidence, and heterogeneous opinions of participating stakeholders. Multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA) offers...

    Authors: Philip Wahlster, Mireille Goetghebeur, Sandra Schaller, Christine Kriza and Peter Kolominsky-Rabas
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2015 13:24
  4. Systematic reviews of research are increasingly recognised as important for informing decisions across policy sectors and for setting priorities for research. Although reviews draw on international research, t...

    Authors: Sandy Oliver, Mukdarut Bangpan, Claire Stansfield and Ruth Stewart
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2015 13:23
  5. Effective use of research to inform policymaking can be strengthened by policymakers undertaking various research engagement actions (e.g., accessing, appraising, and applying research). Consequently, we devel...

    Authors: Steve R Makkar, Anna Williamson, Tari Turner, Sally Redman and Jordan Louviere
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2015 13:22
  6. Without good policies it will be difficult to provide guidance to research and innovation systems. However, policies need to be followed through and implemented to have the desired effect. We studied the polic...

    Authors: Julius Mugwagwa, Daniel Edwards and Sylvia de Haan
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2015 13:21
  7. Health is influenced by determinants beyond the traditional conception of the health sector. Increasingly, global actors are targeting policymakers at global and national levels to take an intersectoral approa...

    Authors: James Bao, Kavi Bhalla and Sara Bennett
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2015 13:19
  8. Research funding agencies continue to grapple with assessing research impact. Theoretical frameworks are useful tools for describing and understanding research impact. The purpose of this narrative literature ...

    Authors: Andrew J Milat, Adrian E Bauman and Sally Redman
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2015 13:18
  9. Burden of disease (BoD) studies have been conducted in numerous international settings since the early 1990’s. Two national BoD studies have been undertaken in Australia, in 1998 and 2003, although neither stu...

    Authors: Jessica R Botfield, Anthony B Zwi and Peter S Hill
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2015 13:17
  10. Implementation science and knowledge translation have developed across multiple disciplines with the common aim of bringing innovations to practice. Numerous implementation frameworks, models, and theories hav...

    Authors: Joanna C Moullin, Daniel Sabater-Hernández, Fernando Fernandez-Llimos and Shalom I Benrimoj
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2015 13:16
  11. Health systems are complex and health policies are political. While grand policies are set by politicians, the detailed implementation strategies which influence the shape and impact of these policies are dele...

    Authors: Alexandra L Martiniuk, Seye Abimbola and Merrick Zwarenstein
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2015 13:15
  12. Identifying research priorities is key to innovation and economic growth, since it informs decision makers on effectively targeting issues that have the greatest potential public benefit. As such, the process ...

    Authors: Sylvia de Haan, Rose Kingamkono, Neema Tindamanyire, Hassan Mshinda, Harun Makandi, Flora Tibazarwa, Bruno Kubata and Gabriela Montorzi
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2015 13:14
  13. In the UK, the recruitment of patients into clinical research is a national health research and development policy priority. There has been limited investigation of how national level factors operate as barrie...

    Authors: Mary Adams, Louise Caffrey and Christopher McKevitt
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2015 13:8
  14. Community health workers (CHWs) are increasingly recognized as an integral component of the health workforce needed to achieve public health goals in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Many factors inte...

    Authors: Maryse C Kok, Sumit S Kane, Olivia Tulloch, Hermen Ormel, Sally Theobald, Marjolein Dieleman, Miriam Taegtmeyer, Jacqueline EW Broerse and Korrie AM de Koning
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2015 13:13
  15. There has been a dramatic increase in the body of evidence demonstrating the benefits that come from health research. In 2014, the funding bodies for higher education in the UK conducted an assessment of resea...

    Authors: Stephen R Hanney and Miguel A González-Block
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2015 13:12
  16. Policymakers, stakeholders and researchers have not been able to find research evidence about health systems using an easily understood taxonomy of topics, know when they have conducted a comprehensive search ...

    Authors: John N Lavis, Michael G Wilson, Kaelan A Moat, Amanda C Hammill, Jennifer A Boyko, Jeremy M Grimshaw and Signe Flottorp
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2015 13:10
  17. In May 2013, the WHO Member States requested the WHO to establish a Global Observatory on Health Research and Development (R&D), as part of a strategic work-plan to promote innovation, build capacity, improve ...

    Authors: Taghreed Adam, John-Arne Røttingen and Marie-Paule Kieny
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2015 13:9
  18. Better estimates of changes in the level and structure of national, regional, and global expenditures on health research and development (R&D) are needed as an important source of information for advancing cou...

    Authors: Alison J Young, Robert F Terry, John-Arne Røttingen and Roderik F Viergever
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2015 13:7
  19. Knowledge-based organizations, such as health care systems, need to be adaptive to change and able to facilitate uptake of new evidence. To be able to assess organizational capability to learn is therefore an ...

    Authors: Mia Leufvén, Ravi Vitrakoti, Anna Bergström, Ashish KC and Mats Målqvist
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2015 13:6
  20. Strengthening health research capacity in low- and middle-income countries remains a major policy goal. The Health Research Capacity Strengthening (HRCS) Global Learning (HGL) program of work documented experi...

    Authors: Alastair Ager and Christina Zarowsky
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2015 13:5
  21. Despite the recent innovations in tuberculosis (TB) and multi-drug resistant TB (MDR-TB) diagnosis, culture remains vital for difficult-to-diagnose patients, baseline and end-point determination for novel vacc...

    Authors: Willy Ssengooba, Sebastian J Gelderbloem, Gerald Mboowa, Anne Wajja, Carolyn Namaganda, Philippa Musoke, Harriet Mayanja-Kizza and Moses Lutaakome Joloba
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2015 13:4
  22. There is a growing emphasis on the importance of research having demonstrable public benefit. Measurements of the impacts of research are therefore needed. We applied a modified impact assessment process that ...

    Authors: Gillian Cohen, Jacqueline Schroeder, Robyn Newson, Lesley King, Lucie Rychetnik, Andrew J Milat, Adrian E Bauman, Sally Redman and Simon Chapman
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2015 13:3
  23. There is a scarcity of empirical data on African country climates for evidence-informed health system policymaking (EIHSP) to backup the longstanding reputation that research evidence is not valued enough by h...

    Authors: Pierre Ongolo-Zogo, John N Lavis, Goran Tomson and Nelson K Sewankambo
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2015 13:2
  24. The time taken, or ‘time lags’, between biomedical/health research and its translation into health improvements is receiving growing attention. Reducing time lags should increase rates of return to such resear...

    Authors: Stephen R Hanney, Sophie Castle-Clarke, Jonathan Grant, Susan Guthrie, Chris Henshall, Jorge Mestre-Ferrandiz, Michele Pistollato, Alexandra Pollitt, Jon Sussex and Steven Wooding
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2015 13:1
  25. Despite its contribution to global disease burden, diarrhoeal disease is still a relatively neglected area for research funding, especially in low-income country settings. The SNOWS consortium (Scientists Netw...

    Authors: Paul R Hunter, Samira H Abdelrahman, Prince Antwi-Agyei, Esi Awuah, Sandy Cairncross, Eileen Chappell, Anders Dalsgaard, Jeroen HJ Ensink, Natasha Potgieter, Ingrid Mokgobu, Edward W Muchiri, Edgar Mulogo, Mike van der Es and Samuel N Odai
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2014 12:68
  26. Ensuring the use of research evidence in health system management and policy decisions is an important challenge in this century. Knowledge transfer and exchange (KTE) has emerged as a paradigm to address the ...

    Authors: Moriah E. Ellen, John N. Lavis, Assaf Sharon and Joshua Shemer
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2014 12:67
  27. Health technology assessment (HTA) is mostly used in the context of high- and middle-income countries. Many “resource-poor” settings, which have the greatest need for critical assessment of health technology, ...

    Authors: Christine Kriza, Jill Hanass-Hancock, Emmanuel Ankrah Odame, Nicola Deghaye, Rashid Aman, Philip Wahlster, Mayra Marin, Nicodemus Gebe, Willis Akhwale, Isabelle Wachsmuth and Peter L. Kolominsky-Rabas
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2014 12:66
  28. The relationship between research funding across therapeutic areas and the burden of disease in Norway has not been investigated. Further, few studies have looked at the association between national research i...

    Authors: Jonas Minet Kinge, Ingrid Roxrud, Stein Emil Vollset, Vegard Skirbekk and John-Arne Røttingen
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2014 12:64
  29. Formal knowledge networks are considered among the solutions for strengthening knowledge translation and one of the elements of innovative systems in developing and developed countries. In the year 2000, knowledg...

    Authors: Bahareh Yazdizadeh, Reza Majdzadeh, Ali Alami and Sima Amrolalaei
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2014 12:63
  30. The 2001 Declaration of Commitment (DoC) adopted by the General Assembly Special Session on HIV/AIDS (UNGASS) included a call to monitor national responses to the HIV epidemic. Since the DoC, efforts and inves...

    Authors: Tobias Alfven, Lotus McDougal, Luisa Frescura, Christian Aran, Paul Amler and Wayne Gill
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2014 12:62
  31. Inappropriate use and overuse of antibiotics is a serious concern in the treatment of upper respiratory tract infections (URTIs), especially in developing countries. In recent decades, information disclosure a...

    Authors: Lianping Yang, Chaojie Liu, Lijun Wang, Xi Yin and Xinping Zhang
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2014 12:61
  32. Improved knowledge of obstetric danger signs, birth preparedness practices, and readiness for emergency complications are among the strategies aimed at both enhancing utilization of maternal health services an...

    Authors: Scovia N Mbalinda, Annettee Nakimuli, Othman Kakaire, Michael O Osinde, Nelson Kakande and Dan K Kaye
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2014 12:60
  33. The importance of health policy and systems research and analysis (HPSR + A) has been increasingly recognised, but it is still unclear how most effectively to strengthen the capacity of the different organisat...

    Authors: Gillian Lê, Tolib Mirzoev, Marsha Orgill, Ermin Erasmus, Uta Lehmann, Stephen Okeyo, Jane Goudge, Stephen Maluka, Benjamin Uzochukwu, Moses Aikins, Don de Savigny, Goran Tomson and Lucy Gilson
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2014 12:59
  34. To establish appropriate measures that deal with incidental findings (IFs), the neuroscience community needs to address various ethical issues. The current state of research facilities regarding IFs and invest...

    Authors: Misao Fujita, Yoshinori Hayashi, Shimon Tashiro, Kyoko Takashima, Eisuke Nakazawa and Akira Akabayashi
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2014 12:58
  35. In 1627, Francis Bacon’s New Atlantis described a utopian society in which an embryonic research system contributed to meeting the needs of the society. In this editorial, we use some of the aspirations described...

    Authors: Stephen R Hanney and Miguel A González-Block
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2014 12:56
  36. The establishment of policy is key to the implementation of actions for health. We review the nature of policy and the definition and directions of health policy. In doing so, we explicitly cast a health polit...

    Authors: Evelyne de Leeuw, Carole Clavier and Eric Breton
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2014 12:55
  37. The literature suggests that research funding decisions may be influenced by criteria such as gender or institution of the principal investigator (PI). The aim of this study was to investigate the association ...

    Authors: Sheila Turner, Peter Davidson, Louise Stanton and Victoria Cawdeary
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2014 12:54
  38. In 2006, the Health Service Executive (HSE) in Ireland established an Expert Advisory Group (EAG) for Diabetes, to act as its main source of operational policy and strategic advice for this chronic condition. ...

    Authors: Sheena M Mc Hugh, Ivan J Perry, Colin Bradley and Ruairí Brugha
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2014 12:53
  39. Evidence-informed decisions can strengthen health systems, improve health, and reduce health inequities. Despite the Beijing, Montreux, and Bamako calls for action, literature shows that research evidence is u...

    Authors: Fadi El-Jardali, Rawan Hammoud, Lina Younan, Helen Samaha Nuwayhid, Nadine Abdallah, Mohammad Alameddine, Lama Bou-Karroum and Lana Salman
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2014 12:52
  40. Governing immunization services in a way that achieves and maintains desired population coverage levels is complex as it involves interactions of multiple actors and contexts. In one of the Indian states, Kera...

    Authors: Joe Varghese, V Raman Kutty, Ligia Paina and Taghreed Adam
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2014 12:47
  41. Health systems strengthening is becoming a key component of development agendas for low-income countries worldwide. Systems thinking emphasizes the role of diverse stakeholders in designing solutions to system...

    Authors: Karl Blanchet, Jennifer Palmer, Raju Palanchowke, Dorothy Boggs, Ali Jama and Susan Girois
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2014 12:46
  42. Starting in 1999, Concern Worldwide Inc. (Concern) worked with two Bangladeshi municipal health departments to support delivery of maternal and child health preventive services. A mid-term evaluation identifie...

    Authors: Eric G Sarriot, Michelle Kouletio, Shamim Jahan Dr, Izaz Rasul and AKM Musha
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2014 12:45
  43. This paper explores the evolution of schemes for rural finance in China as a case study of the long and complex process of health system development. It argues that the evolution of these schemes has been the ...

    Authors: Xiulan Zhang, Gerald Bloom, Xiaoxin Xu, Lin Chen, Xiaoyun Liang and Sara J Wolcott
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2014 12:44
  44. Using measles and tuberculosis as case examples, with a systems thinking approach, this study examines the human advice-seeking behavior of primary health care (PHC) physicians in a rural district of Pakistan....

    Authors: Asmat U Malik, Cameron D Willis, Saima Hamid, Anar Ulikpan and Peter S Hill
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2014 12:43
  45. Health systems interventions, such as capacity-building of health workers, are implemented across districts in order to improve performance of healthcare organisations. However, such interventions often work i...

    Authors: Nuggehalli Srinivas Prashanth, Bruno Marchal, Narayanan Devadasan, Guy Kegels and Bart Criel
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2014 12:42