Strengthening the use of research evidence to advance health impact - To improve health and well-being and accelerate the achievement of the Triple Billion targets, we need better evidence for better decisions. There are moral, socioeconomic and political arguments to increase the use of research in deci...
Context: The West African Health Organization (WAHO) is vigorously supporting evidence-informed policymaking (EIPM) in the countries of West Africa. EIPM is increasingly recognized as one of the key strategies that can contribute to health systems strengthening and the improvement of health outcomes. The...
Avaliar capacidades, arranjos organizativos e barreiras à implementação dos Núcleos de Evidências (NEvs) da Rede de Políticas Informadas por Evidências (EVIPNet) no Brasil. Realizou-se um estudo exploratório de casos múltiplos, descritivo-analítico, com abordagem mista. Os coordenadores dos NEv...
Provincial and territorial health systems across Canada
continue to struggle with delivering timely access to
primary-care services. In 2016, 74% of Canadians reported
in the Commonwealth International Health Policy Survey
that they received excellent or very good care from their
regular doctor, which is...
The World Health Assembly in 2005 urged Member States to establish or strengthen knowledge transfer mechanisms to support evidence-informed health policies and health care delivery. The European Health Information Initiative was set up to strengthen the use of evidence, information and research for polic...
Systematic reviews are important for decision makers. They offer many potential benefits but are often written in technical language, are too long, and do not contain contextual details which makes them hard to use for decision-making. Strategies to promote the use of evidence to decision makers are requ...
We identified a total of 21 relevant documents by
searching Health Systems Evidence and running
targeted searches in PubMed, with the search strategy
for these databases detailed in Box 2. A document was
included when it directly addressed the question posed
for this rapid synthesis (i.e., it was specifi...
Evidence syntheses use multidisciplinary and intersectoral sources of evidence to support policy-making. The Health Evidence Network (HEN) has supported and strengthened the use of evidence in health policy-making in the WHO European Region since 2003. The HEN synthesis report series responds to public h...
Purpose: The WHO’s Evidence-informed Policy Network (EVIPNet) has supported Member States in designing, implementing and institutionalizing efforts to support evidence-informed policy-making (EIP). This experience has shown the importance of systematically and comprehensively identifying important cont...
La articulación entre la investigación científica y el diseño de políticas públicas efectivas es una de las principales herramientas de legitimidad para los hacedores de política. La producción de nueva evidencia se ha incrementado en los últimos años, nuevas metodologías y herramientas tecnol...
