Health Research Policy and Systems

Article	Citations
Exploring the theory, barriers and enablers for patient and public involvement across health, social care and patient safety: a systematic review of reviews	145
The opioid crisis: a contextual, social-ecological framework	94
Strategies for the implementation of clinical practice guidelines in public health: an overview of systematic reviews	64
Menstrual hygiene management in schools: midway progress update on the “MHM in Ten” 2014–2024 global agenda	62
Managing COVID-19 within and across health systems: why we need performance intelligence to coordinate a global response	60
Community health workers at the dawn of a new era: 11. CHWs leading the way to “Health for All”	48
Future health spending forecast in leading emerging BRICS markets in 2030: health policy implications	45
Co-production practice and future research priorities in United Kingdom-funded applied health research: a scoping review	42
Community health workers at the dawn of a new era: 6. Recruitment, training, and continuing education	40
The household financial burden of non-communicable diseases in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review	40
Community health workers at the dawn of a new era: 9. CHWs’ relationships with the health system and communities	40
Community health workers at the dawn of a new era: 1. Introduction: tensions confronting large-scale CHW programmes	38
Community health workers at the dawn of a new era: 5. Roles and tasks	38
Community health workers at the dawn of a new era: 8. Incentives and remuneration	37
Applying systems thinking to knowledge mobilisation in public health	36
Community health workers at the dawn of a new era: 4. Programme financing	33
Learning from public health and hospital resilience to the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic: protocol for a multiple case study (Brazil, Canada, China, France, Japan, and Mali)	33
Making change last? Exploring the value of sustainability approaches in healthcare: a scoping review	33
Community health workers at the dawn of a new era	32
A scoping review of international policy responses to mental health recovery during the COVID-19 pandemic	32
Health communication in and out of public health emergencies: to persuade or to inform?	32
Intersectoral and multisectoral approaches to health policy: an umbrella review protocol	30
Can intersectionality help with understanding and tackling health inequalities? Perspectives of professional stakeholders	30
A 10-year longitudinal evaluation of science policy interventions to promote sex and gender in health research	29
Framing rehabilitation through health policy and systems research: priorities for strengthening rehabilitation	29

The qualitative experience of telehealth access and clinical encounters in Australian healthcare during COVID-19: implications for policy	27
Bridging the research–practice gap in healthcare: a rapid review of research translation centres in England and Australia	26
Health provider perspectives on the implementation of the same-day-ART initiation policy in the Gauteng province of South Africa	26
Adapting evidence-informed population health interventions for new contexts: a scoping review of current practice	26
Demographic forecasting of population aging in Greece and Cyprus: one big challenge for the Mediterranean health and social system long-term sustainability	25
Measuring the resilience of health systems in low- and middle-income countries: a focus on community resilience	25
The state of health research governance in Africa: what do we know and how can we improve?	24
Using a co-design process to develop an integrated model of care for delivering self-management intervention to multi-morbid COPD people in rural Nepal	24
Successes and challenges of health systems governance towards universal health coverage and global health security: a narrative review and synthesis of the literature	24
A systems approach to scale-up for population health improvement	22
Community health workers at the dawn of a new era: 2. Planning, coordination, and partnerships	21
Lessons learned from descriptions and evaluations of knowledge translation platforms supporting evidence-informed policy-making in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review	21
Financial risk protection from out-of-pocket health spending in low- and middle-income countries: a scoping review of the literature	21
Where is critical analysis of power and positionality in knowledge translation?	21
Should policy makers trust composite indices? A commentary on the pitfalls of inappropriate indices for policy formation	20
A critical interpretive synthesis of the roles of midwives in health systems	20
How to bring research evidence into policy? Synthesizing strategies of five research projects in low-and middle-income countries	20
Health research system resilience: lesson learned from the COVID-19 crisis	19
A landscape analysis of health technology assessment capacity in the Association of South-East Asian Nations region	19
Community health workers at the dawn of a new era: 7. Recent advances in supervision	18
Developing a Thai national critical care allocation guideline during the COVID-19 pandemic: a rapid review and stakeholder consultation	18
Limitations of COVID-19 testing and case data for evidence-informed health policy and practice	17
The added value of using the HEPA PAT for physical activity policy monitoring: a four-country comparison	17
A framework for preferred practices in conducting culturally competent health research in a multicultural society	17
War on Diabetes in Singapore: a policy analysis	17
Promoting knowledge to policy translation for urban health using community-based system dynamics in Brazil	17
Stakeholders’ experiences of the public health research process: time to change the system?	17
The opioid crisis: need for systems science research	16
Tools for assessing the scalability of innovations in health: a systematic review	16
A scoping review of systems approaches for increasing physical activity in populations	16
Using health data for decision-making at each level of the health system to achieve universal health coverage in Ethiopia: the case of an immunization programme in a low-resource setting	15
Conducting decolonizing research and practice with Australian First Nations to close the health gap	15
Domains and processes for institutionalizing evidence-informed health policy-making: a critical interpretive synthesis	15
Barriers to sustainable health research leadership in the Global South: Time for a Grand Bargain on localization of research leadership?	15
Understanding the complexity of population health interventions: assessing intervention system theory (ISyT)	15
Unveiling and addressing implementation barriers to routine immunization in the peri-urban slums of Karachi, Pakistan: a mixed-methods study	14
Evaluation of the performance and achievements of the WHO Evidence-informed Policy Network (EVIPNet) Europe	14
Rethinking approaches of science, technology, and innovation in healthcare during the COVID-19 pandemic: the challenge of translating knowledge infrastructures to public needs	14
Community health workers at the dawn of a new era: 3. Programme governance	14
Community-led HIV self-testing for men who have sex with men in Lebanon: lessons learned and impact of COVID-19	14
Scaling up population health interventions from decision to sustainability – a window of opportunity? A qualitative view from policy-makers	14
Noncommunicable diseases and health system responses in Saudi Arabia: focus on policies and strategies. A qualitative study	13
Prioritizing knowledge translation in low- and middle-income countries to support pandemic response and preparedness	13
Implementation research training for learners in low- and middle-income countries: evaluating behaviour change after participating in a massive open online course	13
Community health workers at the dawn of a new era: 10. Programme performance and its assessment	13
Fit for purpose. Co-production of complex behavioural interventions. A practical guide and exemplar of co-producing a telehealth-delivered exercise intervention for people with stroke	13
The role of community pharmacists in increasing access and use of self-care interventions for sexual and reproductive health in the Eastern Mediterranean Region: examples from Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon a	13
Increased use of knowledge translation strategies is associated with greater research impact on public health policy and practice: an analysis of trials of nutrition, physical activity, sexual health,	13
Translating evidence into practice: a longitudinal qualitative exploration of allied health decision-making	13
Integrated knowledge translation to advance noncommunicable disease policy and practice in South Africa: application of the Exploration, Preparation, Implementation, and Sustainment (EPIS) framework	13

Direct from the COVID-19 crisis: research and innovation sparks in Brazil	13
Sex and gender analysis in knowledge translation interventions: challenges and solutions	13
Defining key questions for clinical practice guidelines: a novel approach for developing clinically relevant questions	12
Self-care and remote care during pregnancy: a new paradigm?	12
Uncovering the processes of knowledge transformation: the example of local evidence-informed policy-making in United Kingdom healthcare	12
Use of research evidence varied in efforts to expand specific pharmacist autonomous prescriptive authority: an evaluation and recommendations to increase research utilization	12
Flipping the paradigm: a qualitative exploration of research translation centres in the United Kingdom and Australia	12
Tools for assessing health research partnership outcomes and impacts: a systematic review	12
Towards conceptualizing patients as partners in health systems: a systematic review and descriptive synthesis	12
Trainee-led research using an integrated knowledge translation or other research partnership approaches: a scoping review	11
A mixed-methods systematic review of suicide prevention interventions involving multisectoral collaborations	11
The predictors of COVID-19 mortality among health systems parameters: an ecological study across 203 countries	11
Contextual differences considered in the Tunisian ADOLOPMENT of the European guidelines on breast cancer screening	11
Developing pathways for community-led research with big data: a content analysis of stakeholder interviews	11
The MULTI-ACT model: the path forward for participatory and anticipatory governance in health research and care	11
Health technology assessment-informed pricing negotiation in China: higher negotiated price for more effective targeted anticancer medicines?	11
The role of Allied Health Professions and Nursing Research Internships in developing a research culture: a mixed-methods exploration of stakeholder perspectives	11
Aiming for quality: a global compass for national learning systems	11
Challenges encountered in comparing international policy responses to COVID-19 and their effects	11
Measuring health science research and development in Africa: mapping the available data	11
Indicators to evaluate organisational knowledge brokers: a scoping review	11
Assessing how information is packaged in rapid reviews for policy-makers and other stakeholders: a cross-sectional study	11
Coordinating the research response to COVID-19: Mali’s approach	11
Co-production in local government: process, codification and capacity building of new knowledge in collective reflection spaces. Workshops findings from a UK mixed methods study	11
A research agenda for non-communicable disease prevention and control in India	10
Improving the availability of prescription drugs in Lebanon: a critical analysis of alternative policy options	10
Deconstructing design thinking as a tool for the implementation of a population health initiative	10
Strengthening the national health information system through a capacity-building and mentorship partnership (CBMP) programme: a health system and university partnership initiative in Ethiopia	10
Prioritizing guideline recommendations for implementation: a systematic, consumer-inclusive process with a case study using the Australian Clinical Guidelines for Stroke Management	10
Health technology assessment of biosimilars worldwide: a scoping review	10
Using RIGHT (Reporting Items for Practice Guidelines in Healthcare) to evaluate the reporting quality of WHO guidelines	10
How transdisciplinary research teams learn to do knowledge translation (KT), and how KT in turn impacts transdisciplinary research: a realist evaluation and longitudinal case study	10
Barriers and enablers to source plasma donation by gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men under revised eligibility criteria: protocol for a multiple stakeholder feasibility study	10
Understanding the policy dynamics of COVID-19 vaccination in Ghana through the lens of a policy analytical framework	10
Global research priorities for social, behavioural and community engagement interventions for maternal, newborn and child health	9
Governing heatwaves in Europe: comparing health policy and practices to better understand roles, responsibilities and collaboration	9
Operationalising health systems thinking: a pathway to high effective coverage	9
COVID-19: protocol for observational studies utilizing near real-time electronic Australian general practice data to promote effective care and best-practice policy—a design thinking approach	9
Evaluation of the National Health Insurance Program of Nepal: are political promises translated into actions?	9
Health research capacity building of health workers in fragile and conflict-affected settings: a scoping review of challenges, strengths, and recommendations	9
The pragmatic, rapid, and iterative dissemination and implementation (PRIDI) cycle: adapting to the dynamic nature of public health emergencies (and beyond)	9
Strategies to adapt and implement health system guidelines and recommendations: a scoping review	9
Using participatory action research to improve immunization utilization in areas with pockets of unimmunized children in Nigeria	9
Social media, vaccine hesitancy and trust deficit in immunization programs: a qualitative enquiry in Malappuram District of Kerala, India	9
“There hasn’t been a career structure to step into”: a qualitative study on perceptions of allied health clinician researcher careers	9
An analysis of the strategic plan development processes of major public organisations funding health research in nine high-income countries worldwide	9
Describing implementation outcomes for a virtual community of practice: The ECHO Ontario Mental Health experience	8
Mixed method evaluation of the CEBHA+ integrated knowledge translation approach: a protocol	8
Pharmaceutical subsidy policy in Iran: a qualitative stakeholder analysis	8
Investigating the nature and quality of locally commissioned evaluations of the NHS Vanguard programme: an evidence synthesis	8
Public health policy-making for hearing loss: stakeholders’ evaluation of a novel eHealth tool	8
Lessons from the pandemic on the value of research infrastructure	8
Rapid research response to the COVID-19 pandemic: perspectives from a National Institute for Health Biomedical Research Centre	8
Co-creating physical activity interventions: a mixed methods evaluation approach	8
Inclusive planning: African policy inventory and South African mobility case study on the exclusion of persons with disabilities	8
Boundary spanning and identity work in the clinical research delivery workforce: a qualitative study of research nurses, midwives and allied health professionals in the National Health Service, United	8
The role of self-care interventions on men’s health-seeking behaviours to advance their sexual and reproductive health and rights	8
Investigating the influence of institutions, politics, organizations, and governance on the COVID-19 response in British Columbia, Canada: a jurisdictional case study protocol	8
Integrating citizen engagement into evidence-informed health policy-making in eastern Europe and central Asia: scoping study and future research priorities	8
Coevolution of COVID-19 research and China’s policies	8
How to disseminate national recommendations for physical activity: a qualitative analysis of critical change agents in Germany	8
Fundamental challenges in assessing the impact of research infrastructure	8
Agenda setting for essential medicines policy in sub-Saharan Africa: a retrospective policy analysis using Kingdon’s multiple streams model	8
Governance of health research in four eastern and southern African countries	7
Engaged scholarship and public policy decision-making: a scoping review	7
A North–South-South partnership in higher education to develop health research capacity in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: the challenge of finding a common language	7
A scoping review of complex systems methods used in population physical activity research: do they align with attributes of a whole system approach?	7
Resilience of primary healthcare system across low- and middle-income countries during COVID-19 pandemic: a scoping review	7
Evaluating cancer research impact: lessons and examples from existing reviews on approaches to research impact assessment	7
Mapping the burden of diabetes in five small countries in Europe and setting the agenda for health policy and strategic action	7
How can health technology assessment support our response to public health emergencies?	7
Barriers and facilitators to conducting economic evaluation studies of Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries: a survey of researchers	7
Saving millions of lives but some resources squandered: emerging lessons from health research system pandemic achievements and challenges	7
A qualitative study of the development and utilization of health facility-based immunization microplans in Uganda	7
Psychological, social and technical factors influencing electronic medical records systems adoption by United States physicians: a systematic model	7
Strategies for communicating scientific evidence on healthcare to managers and the population: a scoping review	7
User involvement in ageing and health research: a survey of researchers’ and older adults’ perspectives	7
Building a virtual community of practice: experience from the Canadian foundation for healthcare improvement’s policy circle	7
Open science at the science–policy interface: bringing in the evidence?	7
Understanding the sustainment of population health programmes from a whole-of-system approach	7

Defining research priorities for youth public mental health: reflections on a coproduction approach to transdisciplinary working	7
Policy options to increase motivation for improving evidence-informed health policy-making in Iran	7
Four normative perspectives on public health policy-making and their preferences for bodies of evidence	7
Assessing the impact of knowledge communication and dissemination strategies targeted at health policy-makers and managers: an overview of systematic reviews	7
An evaluation of the Victorian Salt Reduction Partnership’s advocacy strategy for policy change	7
Healthcare providers’ perspectives on integrating NCDs into primary healthcare in Thailand: a mixed method study	7
Measuring public opinion and acceptability of prevention policies: an integrative review and narrative synthesis of methods	6
The value of hackathons in integrated knowledge translation (iKT) research: Waterlupus	6
The influence of the National Health Insurance scheme of the Lao People’s Democratic Republic on healthcare access and catastrophic health expenditures for patients with chronic renal disease, and the	6
How to work with intangible software in public health systems: some experiences from India	6
Exploring the possible sources of fiscal space for health in India: insights from political regimes	6
Communities of practice in Alberta Health Services: advancing a learning organisation	6
Cross-cultural adaption and psychometric investigation of the German version of the Evidence Based Practice Attitude Scale (EBPAS-36D)	6
Rapid prioritisation of topics for rapid evaluation: the case of innovations in adult social care and social work	6
Pathways to improve health information systems in Ethiopia: current maturity status and implications	6
PRIMASYS: a health policy and systems research approach for the assessment of country primary health care systems	6
Evaluating the quality of research co-production: Research Quality Plus for Co-Production (RQ + 4 Co-Pro)	6
Exploring how to sustain ‘place-based’ rural health academic research for informing rural health systems: a qualitative investigation	6
A critical review of definitions of rural areas in Indonesia and implications for health workforce policy and research	6
The usability and applicability of knowledge translation theories, models, and frameworks for research in the context of a national health service	6
Blending an implementation science framework with principles of proportionate universalism to support physical activity promotion in primary healthcare while addressing health inequities	6
Sugar-sweetened beverage tax implementation processes: results of a scoping review	6
How frequently should “living” guidelines be updated? Insights from the Australian Living Stroke Guidelines	6
A framework for considering the utility of models when facing tough decisions in public health: a guideline for policy-makers	6
Transforming the practice of medicine through team science	6
Developing strategies to attract, retain and support midwives in rural fragile settings: participatory workshops with health system stakeholders in Ituri Province, Democratic Republic of Congo	6
Co-designing a theory-informed intervention to increase shared decision-making in maternity care	6
Raising the contraceptive prevalence rate to 50% by 2025 in Pakistan: an analysis of number of users and service delivery channels	6
Comparative analysis of country-level enablers, barriers and recommendations to strengthen institutional capacity for evidence uptake in decision-making	6
Researching, co-creating and testing innovations in paper-based health information systems (PHISICC) to support health workers’ decision-making: protocol of a multi-country, transdisciplinary, mixed-m	6
Policy options for strengthening evidence-informed health policy-making in Iran: overall SASHA project findings	5
Political economy analysis of universal health coverage and health financing reforms in low- and middle-income countries: the role of stakeholder engagement in the research process	5
Policy dialogue and participation: a new way of crafting a national health financing strategy in Morocco	5
Assessing the impact of the Good Samaritan Law in the state of Connecticut: a system dynamics approach	5
Is value-based payment for healthcare feasible under Ghana’s National Health Insurance Scheme?	5
An analysis of how health systems integrated priority-setting in the pandemic planning in a sample of Latin America and the Caribbean countries	5
A scoping review to identify and describe the characteristics of theories, models and frameworks of health research partnerships	5
Collective reflections on the first cycle of a collaborative learning platform to strengthen rural primary healthcare in Mpumalanga, South Africa	5
EVITA 2.0, an updated framework for understanding evidence-based mental health policy agenda-setting: tested and informed by key informant interviews in a multilevel comparative case study	5
Systemic factors for enhancing intersectoral collaboration for the operationalization of One Health: a case study in India	5
Impact of good governance, economic growth and universal health coverage on COVID-19 infection and case fatality rates in Africa	5
What funders are doing to assess the impact of their investments in health and biomedical research	5
Exploring the evidence base for Communities of Practice in health research and translation: a scoping review	5
Health research knowledge translation into policy in Zambia: policy-maker and researcher perspectives	5
Strengthening research ethics governance and regulatory oversight in Central America and the Dominican Republic in response to the COVID-19 pandemic: a qualitative study	5
Decision-maker led implementation research on immunization: learning from low- and middle-income countries	5
Competency profiles for evidence-informed policy-making (EIPM): a rapid review	5
Repairing boundaries along pathways to tuberculosis case detection: a qualitative synthesis of intervention designs	5
A cost–benefit analysis framework for preventive health interventions to aid decision-making in Australian governments	5
A call for better understanding of social media in surveillance and management of noncommunicable diseases	5
The understanding, application and influence of complexity in national physical activity policy-making	5
Exploring mechanisms that explain how coalition groups are formed and how they work to sustain political priority for maternal and child health in Nigeria using the advocacy coalition framework	5
Outcomes from Indo–United States–Egypt tri-national psychiatric research training programmes	5
Sixteen years of eHealth experiences in Iran: a qualitative content analysis of national policies	5
Institutional-level drivers of gender-inequitable scientific career progression in sub-Saharan Africa	5
Improving WHO’s understanding of WHO guideline uptake and use in Member States: a scoping review	5
The how and why of producing policy relevant research: perspectives of Australian childhood obesity prevention researchers and policy makers	5
A systematic review of the literature on the impact of the Seguro Popular	5
Effectiveness of a community-integrated intermediary care (CIIC) service model to enhance family-based long-term care for Thai older adults in Chiang Mai, Thailand: a cluster-randomized controlled tri	5
Combining systems thinking approaches and implementation science constructs within community-based prevention: a systematic review	4
Developing co-funded multi-sectoral partnerships for chronic disease prevention: a qualitative inquiry into federal governmental public health staff experience	4
What the policy and stewardship landscape of a national health research system looks like in a developing country like Iran: a qualitative study	4
What makes a ‘successful’ collaborative research project between public health practitioners and academics? A mixed-methods review of funding applications submitted to a local intervention evaluation	4
Late career participation of late retirees in the age of the silver tsunami: understanding the influencing mechanism of health status and employment-based health insurance participation	4
Output-orientated policy engagement: a model for advancing the use of epidemiological evidence in health policy	4
Aiding empirical research on the commercial determinants of health: a scoping review of datasets and methods about lobbying	4
Prevalence and determinants of unmet needs for hypertension care among the older population in Selangor: cross-sectional study	4
How does academia respond to the burden of infectious and parasitic disease?	4
Quality improvements of healthcare trajectories by learning from aggregated patient-reported outcomes: a mixed-methods systematic literature review	4
Identifying advocacy strategies, challenges and opportunities for increasing domestic health policy and health systems research funding in Nigeria: Perspectives of researchers and policymakers	4
Development of a knowledge translation taxonomy in the field of health prevention: a participative study between researchers, decision-makers and field professionals	4
Can healthy ageing moderate the effects of population ageing on economic growth and health spending trends in Mongolia? A modelling study	4
Pharmacy premises licensing policy formulation: experience from Ghana	4
Standardising policy and technology responses in the immediate aftermath of a pandemic: a comparative and conceptual framework	4
Scaling up tobacco cessation within TB programmes: findings from a multi-country, mixed-methods implementation study	4
Systematic review and policy dialogue to determine challenges in evidence-informed health policy-making: findings of the SASHA study	4
Building capacity for integrated knowledge translation: a description of what we can learn from trainees’ experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic	4
The organization and impacts of clinical research delivery workforce redeployment during the COVID-19 pandemic: a qualitative case study of one research-intensive acute hospital trust	4
Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on health care workers (HCWs) in Sindh Province of Pakistan	4
Policy learning and Universal Health Coverage in low- and middle-income countries	4
First Nations Australians’ self-determination in health and alcohol policy development: a Delphi study	4
Hospital funding reforms in Canada: a narrative review of Ontario and Quebec strategies	4
Public health research priorities for WHO on COVID-19 in the South-East Asia Region: results of a prioritization survey	4
How are health research partnerships assessed? A systematic review of outcomes, impacts, terminology and the use of theories, models and frameworks	4
National governance of de-implementation of low-value care: a qualitative study in Sweden	4
Inclusion of diabetic retinopathy screening strategies in national-level diabetes care planning in low- and middle-income countries: a scoping review	4
An analysis of the impact of newborn survival policies in Pakistan using a policy triangle framework	4
A narrative review of economic constructs in commonly used implementation and scale-up theories, frameworks and models	4
Implementing healthy food environment policies in New Zealand: nine years of inaction	4
The collaborative research and service delivery partnership between the United States healthcare system and the U.S. Military Health System during the COVID-19 pandemic	4
Evaluation of the feasibility and sustainability of the joint human and animal vaccination and its integration to the public health system in the Danamadji health district, Chad	4
A critical realist synthesis of cross-disciplinary health policy and systems research: defining characteristic features, developing an evaluation framework and identifying challenges	4
The use of GRADE-CERQual in qualitative evidence synthesis: an evaluation of fidelity and reporting	4
Competing public narratives in nutrition policy: insights into the ideational barriers of public support for regulatory nutrition measures	4
From policy to practice: prioritizing person-centred healthcare actions in the state of Victoria	3