Public health research support through the European structural funds in central and eastern Europe and the Mediterranean.

abstract：BACKGROUND:The use of participatory monitoring and evaluation (M&E) approaches is important for guiding local decision-making, promoting the implementation of effective interventions and addressing emerging issues in the course of implementation. In this article, we explore how participatory M&E approaches helped to id...

journal_title：Health research policy and systems

authors： Kananura RM,Ekirapa-Kiracho E,Paina L,Bumba A,Mulekwa G,Nakiganda-Busiku D,Oo HNL,Kiwanuka SN,George A,Peters DH

更新日期：2017-12-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Long-acting reversible contraceptives, such as the intrauterine device (IUD), remain underutilised in Pakistan with high discontinuation rates. Based on a 24-month prospective client follow-up (nested within a larger quasi-experimental study), this paper presents the comparison of two intervention models, on...

journal_title：Health research policy and systems

authors： Hameed W,Azmat SK,Ishaque M,Hussain W,Munroe E,Mustafa G,Khan OF,Abbas G,Ali S,Asghar QJ,Ali S,Ahmed A,Hamza HB

更新日期：2015-11-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Preterm birth (PTB) is the leading cause of death in children under age five. Healthcare policy and other decision-making relevant to PTB may rely on obsolete, incomplete or inapplicable research evidence, leading to worsened outcomes. Appropriate knowledge transfer and exchange (KTE) strategies are an impor...

journal_title：Health research policy and systems

authors： Horvath H,Brindis CD,Reyes EM,Yamey G,Franck L,Knowledge Transfer and Exchange (KTE) Working Group.

更新日期：2017-09-06 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Numerous sub-Saharan African countries have experimented with performance-based financing (PBF) with the goal of improving health system performance. To date, few articles have examined the implementation of this type of complex intervention in Francophone West Africa. This qualitative research aims to und...

journal_title：Health research policy and systems

authors： Coulibaly A,Gautier L,Zitti T,Ridde V

更新日期：2020-06-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The prevalence of opioid use and misuse has provoked a staggering number of deaths over the past two and a half decades. Much attention has focused on individual risks according to various characteristics and experiences. However, broader social and contextual domains are also essential contributors to the opioid cris...

journal_title：Health research policy and systems

authors： Jalali MS,Botticelli M,Hwang RC,Koh HK,McHugh RK

更新日期：2020-08-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND: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, have a limited basis for making evidence-based choices. This can lead to inappropriate use of techno...

journal_title：Health research policy and systems

authors： Kriza C,Hanass-Hancock J,Odame EA,Deghaye N,Aman R,Wahlster P,Marin M,Gebe N,Akhwale W,Wachsmuth I,Kolominsky-Rabas PL

更新日期：2014-12-02 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The creation of a clinical network was proposed as a means to promote implementation of a set of recommended clinical practices targeting inpatient paediatric care in Kenya. The rationale for selecting a network as a strategy has been previously described. Here, we aim to describe network activities actually...

journal_title：Health research policy and systems

authors： English M,Ayieko P,Nyamai R,Were F,Githanga D,Irimu G

更新日期：2017-02-02 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Communities of practice (CoPs) have been used in the health sector to support professional practice change. However, little is known about how CoPs might be used to influence a system that requires change at and across various levels (i.e. front line care, organizational, governmental). In this paper we exam...

journal_title：Health research policy and systems

authors： Kothari A,Boyko JA,Conklin J,Stolee P,Sibbald SL

更新日期：2015-07-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND: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 research protocols was conducted in September 2007. METHODS:A review of all ongoing research protoc...

journal_title：Health research policy and systems

authors： Koehlmoos TP,Walker DG,Gazi R

更新日期：2010-04-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Evidence-based public health interventions, which research has demonstrated offer the most promise for improving the population's health, are not always utilized in practice settings. The extent to which dissemination from researchers to public health practice settings occurs is not widely understood. This s...

journal_title：Health research policy and systems

authors： McVay AB,Stamatakis KA,Jacobs JA,Tabak RG,Brownson RC

更新日期：2016-06-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The Cabinet of Health Research and Development (CHRD) has recently been established as the first health research institute in one of the world's newest nations, Timor-Leste. We discuss the development of this initiative to build health research capacity within the context of Timor-Leste's health system, history and fu...

journal_title：Health research policy and systems

authors： Martins N,Hawkins Z

更新日期：2012-04-10 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Intervention research provides important information regarding feasible and effective interventions for health policy makers, but few empirical studies have explored the mechanisms by which these studies influence policy and practice. This study provides an exploratory case series analysis of the policy, pra...

journal_title：Health research policy and systems

authors： Milat AJ,Laws R,King L,Newson R,Rychetnik L,Rissel C,Bauman AE,Redman S,Bennie J

更新日期：2013-02-02 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND: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 challenges and start closing the 'know-do' gap. This area of work is gaining momentum in most develo...

journal_title：Health research policy and systems

authors： Ellen ME,Lavis JN,Sharon A,Shemer J

更新日期：2014-12-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Healthcare redesign, based on building collaborative capacity between academic and clinical partners, should create a method to facilitate flow between the key elements of health service improvement. However, utilising the skills and resources of an organisation outside of the health facility may not always have the d...

journal_title：Health research policy and systems

authors： Prior SJ,Mather C,Miller A,Campbell S

更新日期：2019-11-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In order to understand and measure the policy impact of research we need a definition of research impact that is suited to the task. This article systematically reviewed both peer-reviewed and grey literature for definitions of research impact to develop a definition of research impact that can be used to in...

journal_title：Health research policy and systems

authors： Alla K,Hall WD,Whiteford HA,Head BW,Meurk CS

更新日期：2017-10-02 00:00:00

abstract：: 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 outcome applies to mental health, education and employment. This lack of wellbeing for the individual is a bur...

journal_title：Health research policy and systems

authors： Akister J,Owens M,Goodyer IM

更新日期：2010-05-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Research translation, particularly in the biomedical area, is often discussed but there are few methods that are routinely used to measure it or its impact. Of the impact measurement methods that are used, most aim to provide accountability - to measure and explain what was generated as a consequence of fund...

journal_title：Health research policy and systems

authors： Searles A,Doran C,Attia J,Knight D,Wiggers J,Deeming S,Mattes J,Webb B,Hannan S,Ling R,Edmunds K,Reeves P,Nilsson M

更新日期：2016-08-09 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Rapid urban population growth is of global concern as it is accompanied with several new health challenges. The urban poor who reside in informal settlements are more vulnerable to these health challenges. Lack of formal government public health facilities for the provision of health care is also a common ph...

journal_title：Health research policy and systems

authors： Adongo PB,Phillips JF,Aikins M,Arhin DA,Schmitt M,Nwameme AU,Tabong PT,Binka FN

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND: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 national health technology assessment (HTA) agency, Finohta. A joint collaborative HTA program has e...

journal_title：Health research policy and systems

authors： Halmesmäki E,Pasternack I,Roine R

更新日期：2016-04-05 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION: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; however, no studies have yet attempted to appraise and synthesise the potential enablers and barriers...

journal_title：Health research policy and systems

authors： Badu E,O'Brien AP,Mitchell R

更新日期：2018-11-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:It is vitally important that there is a connection between health research and clinical practice. Indications as to the impact of the research on evidence-based practice and policy can be obtained by tracking the use of outputs of health research, especially its use in clinical guidelines (CGs). This study a...

journal_title：Health research policy and systems

authors： Turner S,Bhurke S,Cook A

更新日期：2015-08-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The increasing resources available for and number of partners providing health sector aid have stimulated innovations, notably, the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness, which aim to improve aid coordination. In this, one of the first studies to analyse implementation of aid coordination below national lev...

journal_title：Health research policy and systems

authors： Sundewall J,Forsberg BC,Jönsson K,Chansa C,Tomson G

更新日期：2009-06-08 00:00:00

abstract：: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) reviewers, and European Medicines Agency rapporteurs and co-rapporteurs are cited in regulatory documents an...

journal_title：Health research policy and systems

authors： Mulinari S,Davis C

更新日期：2018-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Traditional reporting of research outcomes and impacts, which tends to focus on research product publications and grant success, does not capture the value, some contributions, or the complexity of research projects. The purpose of this study was to understand the contributions of five systems-level research...

journal_title：Health research policy and systems

authors： Kothari A,Peter N,Donskov M,Luciani T

更新日期：2017-03-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Big data (BD) informs nearly every aspect of our lives and, in health research, is the foundation for basic discovery and its tailored translation into healthcare. Yet, as new data resources and citizen/patient-led science movements offer sites of innovation, segments of the population with the lowest health...

journal_title：Health research policy and systems

authors： Grayson S,Doerr M,Yu JH

更新日期：2020-07-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The attention to and demand for stronger linkages between research, policy and practice are increasing, especially in fields concerned with sensitive and challenging issues such as sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR). The study described in this article was conducted in the Netherlands among act...

journal_title：Health research policy and systems

authors： de Haas B,van der Kwaak A

更新日期：2017-05-12 00:00:00

abstract：: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. In this article we address considerations of equity. Inequities can be defined as "differences in health which are not only unnecessary and avoidabl...

journal_title：Health research policy and systems

authors： Oxman AD,Lavis JN,Lewin S,Fretheim A

更新日期：2009-12-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Pakistan has one of the highest infant and child mortality rates in the world, half of these occurring due to vaccine-preventable diseases. The country started its Expanded Programme on immunisation (EPI) in 1978. However, the programme's performance is often questioned, as the Immunisation rates have been c...

journal_title：Health research policy and systems

authors： Haq Z,Shaikh BT,Tran N,Hafeez A,Ghaffar A

更新日期：2019-05-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Purpose of the study was to test a theoretical model to assess and develop policies for the promotion of physical activity among older people as part of an international intervention study. METHODS:248 semi-standardized interviews with policy-makers were conducted in 15 European nations. The questionnaire a...

journal_title：Health research policy and systems

authors： Rütten A,Abu-Omar K,Gelius P,Dinan-Young S,Frändin K,Hopman-Rock M,Young A

更新日期：2012-04-18 00:00:00

abstract：: Cardiovascular diseases (CVD) are leading causes of premature mortality in India. Evidence from developed countries shows that mortality from these can be substantially prevented using population-wide and individual-based strategies. Policy initiatives for control of CVD in India have been suggested but evidence of e...

journal_title：Health research policy and systems

authors： Gupta R,Guptha S,Joshi R,Xavier D

更新日期：2011-02-09 00:00:00