Health Research Policy and Systems

Article	Citations
Lost in the shadows: reflections on the dark side of co-production	141
Individual, health system, and contextual barriers and facilitators for the implementation of clinical practice guidelines: a systematic metareview	130
Exploring the theory, barriers and enablers for patient and public involvement across health, social care and patient safety: a systematic review of reviews	127
A review of reviews on principles, strategies, outcomes and impacts of research partnerships approaches: a first step in synthesising the research partnership literature	105
The opioid crisis: a contextual, social-ecological framework	83
From COVID-19 research to vaccine application: why might it take 17 months not 17 years and what are the wider lessons?	57
Strategies for the implementation of clinical practice guidelines in public health: an overview of systematic reviews	54
Managing COVID-19 within and across health systems: why we need performance intelligence to coordinate a global response	54
Menstrual hygiene management in schools: midway progress update on the “MHM in Ten” 2014–2024 global agenda	53
Amplifying the role of knowledge translation platforms in the COVID-19 pandemic response	47
Community health workers at the dawn of a new era: 11. CHWs leading the way to “Health for All”	43
Future health spending forecast in leading emerging BRICS markets in 2030: health policy implications	42
Exploring why global health needs are unmet by research efforts: the potential influences of geography, industry and publication incentives	41
Using natural experiments to improve public health evidence: a review of context and utility for obesity prevention	40
Community health workers at the dawn of a new era: 6. Recruitment, training, and continuing education	36
Community health workers at the dawn of a new era: 9. CHWs’ relationships with the health system and communities	36
The household financial burden of non-communicable diseases in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review	35
Community health workers at the dawn of a new era: 1. Introduction: tensions confronting large-scale CHW programmes	34
Community health workers at the dawn of a new era: 5. Roles and tasks	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)	32
Applying systems thinking to knowledge mobilisation in public health	32
Community health workers at the dawn of a new era: 4. Programme financing	32
A scoping review of international policy responses to mental health recovery during the COVID-19 pandemic	31
Co-production practice and future research priorities in United Kingdom-funded applied health research: a scoping review	31
Framing rehabilitation through health policy and systems research: priorities for strengthening rehabilitation	29

Making change last? Exploring the value of sustainability approaches in healthcare: a scoping review	29
Community health workers at the dawn of a new era: 8. Incentives and remuneration	29
Can intersectionality help with understanding and tackling health inequalities? Perspectives of professional stakeholders	28
A 10-year longitudinal evaluation of science policy interventions to promote sex and gender in health research	26
Strengthening the science of addressing antimicrobial resistance: a framework for planning, conducting and disseminating antimicrobial resistance intervention research	26
Health communication in and out of public health emergencies: to persuade or to inform?	25
Community health workers at the dawn of a new era	25
The qualitative experience of telehealth access and clinical encounters in Australian healthcare during COVID-19: implications for policy	24
Adapting evidence-informed population health interventions for new contexts: a scoping review of current practice	24
The state of health research governance in Africa: what do we know and how can we improve?	24
Demographic forecasting of population aging in Greece and Cyprus: one big challenge for the Mediterranean health and social system long-term sustainability	24
Defining and classifying public health systems: a critical interpretive synthesis	23
Health provider perspectives on the implementation of the same-day-ART initiation policy in the Gauteng province of South Africa	23
Measuring the resilience of health systems in low- and middle-income countries: a focus on community resilience	22
Successes and challenges of health systems governance towards universal health coverage and global health security: a narrative review and synthesis of the literature	21
Bridging the research–practice gap in healthcare: a rapid review of research translation centres in England and Australia	21
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	21
Community health workers at the dawn of a new era: 2. Planning, coordination, and partnerships	20
A systems approach to scale-up for population health improvement	20
How to strengthen a health research system: WHO’s review, whose literature and who is providing leadership?	20
Intersectoral and multisectoral approaches to health policy: an umbrella review protocol	19
Lessons learned from descriptions and evaluations of knowledge translation platforms supporting evidence-informed policy-making in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review	19
Should policy makers trust composite indices? A commentary on the pitfalls of inappropriate indices for policy formation	19
How to bring research evidence into policy? Synthesizing strategies of five research projects in low-and middle-income countries	18
Development of the WHO Antenatal Care Recommendations Adaptation Toolkit: a standardised approach for countries	18
A critical interpretive synthesis of the roles of midwives in health systems	18
Financial risk protection from out-of-pocket health spending in low- and middle-income countries: a scoping review of the literature	18
The added value of using the HEPA PAT for physical activity policy monitoring: a four-country comparison	17
Developing a Thai national critical care allocation guideline during the COVID-19 pandemic: a rapid review and stakeholder consultation	17
Health research system resilience: lesson learned from the COVID-19 crisis	17
Where is critical analysis of power and positionality in knowledge translation?	16
Using an equity-based framework for evaluating publicly funded health insurance programmes as an instrument of UHC in Chhattisgarh State, India	16
Stakeholders’ experiences of the public health research process: time to change the system?	16
Community health workers at the dawn of a new era: 7. Recent advances in supervision	16
Promoting knowledge to policy translation for urban health using community-based system dynamics in Brazil	15
Applied systems thinking: a viable approach to identify leverage points for accelerating progress towards ending neglected tropical diseases	15
Tools for assessing the scalability of innovations in health: a systematic review	15
A landscape analysis of health technology assessment capacity in the Association of South-East Asian Nations region	15
War on Diabetes in Singapore: a policy analysis	14
Evaluation of the performance and achievements of the WHO Evidence-informed Policy Network (EVIPNet) Europe	14
Workplace-based health research training: a qualitative study of perceived needs in a rural setting	14
Community-led HIV self-testing for men who have sex with men in Lebanon: lessons learned and impact of COVID-19	14
A scoping review of systems approaches for increasing physical activity in populations	14
Unveiling and addressing implementation barriers to routine immunization in the peri-urban slums of Karachi, Pakistan: a mixed-methods study	13
Community health workers at the dawn of a new era: 3. Programme governance	13
Health system decision-makers at the helm of implementation research: development of a framework to evaluate the processes and effectiveness of embedded approaches	13
Sex and gender analysis in knowledge translation interventions: challenges and solutions	13
Domains and processes for institutionalizing evidence-informed health policy-making: a critical interpretive synthesis	13
A framework for preferred practices in conducting culturally competent health research in a multicultural society	13
Scaling up population health interventions from decision to sustainability – a window of opportunity? A qualitative view from policy-makers	13

Translating evidence into practice: a longitudinal qualitative exploration of allied health decision-making	13
The opioid crisis: need for systems science research	13
Conducting decolonizing research and practice with Australian First Nations to close the health gap	13
Defining key questions for clinical practice guidelines: a novel approach for developing clinically relevant questions	12
Understanding the complexity of population health interventions: assessing intervention system theory (ISyT)	12
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	12
Rethinking approaches of science, technology, and innovation in healthcare during the COVID-19 pandemic: the challenge of translating knowledge infrastructures to public needs	12
Implementation research training for learners in low- and middle-income countries: evaluating behaviour change after participating in a massive open online course	12
Repurposing NGO data for better research outcomes: a scoping review of the use and secondary analysis of NGO data in health policy and systems research	12
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	12
Noncommunicable diseases and health system responses in Saudi Arabia: focus on policies and strategies. A qualitative study	12
Flipping the paradigm: a qualitative exploration of research translation centres in the United Kingdom and Australia	12
Key factors for national spread and scale-up of an eConsult innovation	12
Community health workers at the dawn of a new era: 10. Programme performance and its assessment	11
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	11
Coordinating the research response to COVID-19: Mali’s approach	11
Capacity building for implementation research: a methodology for advancing health research and practice	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
Barriers to sustainable health research leadership in the Global South: Time for a Grand Bargain on localization of research leadership?	11
Developing pathways for community-led research with big data: a content analysis of stakeholder interviews	11
Integrated knowledge translation to advance noncommunicable disease policy and practice in South Africa: application of the Exploration, Preparation, Implementation, and Sustainment (EPIS) framework	11
Contextual differences considered in the Tunisian ADOLOPMENT of the European guidelines on breast cancer screening	11
Aiming for quality: a global compass for national learning systems	11
The MULTI-ACT model: the path forward for participatory and anticipatory governance in health research and care	10
Use of research evidence varied in efforts to expand specific pharmacist autonomous prescriptive authority: an evaluation and recommendations to increase research utilization	10
Self-care and remote care during pregnancy: a new paradigm?	10
A research agenda for non-communicable disease prevention and control in India	10
Challenges encountered in comparing international policy responses to COVID-19 and their effects	10
Tools for assessing health research partnership outcomes and impacts: a systematic review	10
A mixed-methods systematic review of suicide prevention interventions involving multisectoral collaborations	10
The crucible of COVID-19: what the pandemic is teaching us about health research systems	10
Direct from the COVID-19 crisis: research and innovation sparks in Brazil	10
Uncovering the processes of knowledge transformation: the example of local evidence-informed policy-making in United Kingdom healthcare	10
Learning sites for health system governance in Kenya and South Africa: reflecting on our experience	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
Prioritizing knowledge translation in low- and middle-income countries to support pandemic response and preparedness	10
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,	10
Global research priorities for social, behavioural and community engagement interventions for maternal, newborn and child health	9
Strengthening the national health information system through a capacity-building and mentorship partnership (CBMP) programme: a health system and university partnership initiative in Ethiopia	9
Operationalising health systems thinking: a pathway to high effective coverage	9
Strategies to adapt and implement health system guidelines and recommendations: a scoping review	9
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	9
Indicators to evaluate organisational knowledge brokers: a scoping review	9
Using developmental evaluation to enhance continuous reflection, learning and adaptation of an innovation platform in Australian Indigenous primary healthcare	9
The pragmatic, rapid, and iterative dissemination and implementation (PRIDI) cycle: adapting to the dynamic nature of public health emergencies (and beyond)	9
Prioritizing guideline recommendations for implementation: a systematic, consumer-inclusive process with a case study using the Australian Clinical Guidelines for Stroke Management	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
Improving the availability of prescription drugs in Lebanon: a critical analysis of alternative policy options	9
Assessing how information is packaged in rapid reviews for policy-makers and other stakeholders: a cross-sectional study	9
The predictors of COVID-19 mortality among health systems parameters: an ecological study across 203 countries	9
Using RIGHT (Reporting Items for Practice Guidelines in Healthcare) to evaluate the reporting quality of WHO guidelines	9
Implementing performance-based financing in peripheral health centres in Mali: what can we learn from it?	9
Trainee-led research using an integrated knowledge translation or other research partnership approaches: a scoping review	9
Policy context, coherence and disjuncture in the implementation of the Ideal Clinic Realisation and Maintenance programme in the Gauteng and Mpumalanga provinces of South Africa	9
The role of self-care interventions on men’s health-seeking behaviours to advance their sexual and reproductive health and rights	8
Lessons from the pandemic on the value of research infrastructure	8
Bridging the gap: an economic case study of the impact and cost effectiveness of comprehensive healthcare intermediaries in rural Mexico	8
Health technology assessment of biosimilars worldwide: a scoping review	8
Pharmaceutical subsidy policy in Iran: a qualitative stakeholder analysis	8
Towards conceptualizing patients as partners in health systems: a systematic review and descriptive synthesis	8
Fundamental challenges in assessing the impact of research infrastructure	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
Agenda setting for essential medicines policy in sub-Saharan Africa: a retrospective policy analysis using Kingdon’s multiple streams model	8
Co-creating physical activity interventions: a mixed methods evaluation approach	8
Governing heatwaves in Europe: comparing health policy and practices to better understand roles, responsibilities and collaboration	8
How to disseminate national recommendations for physical activity: a qualitative analysis of critical change agents in Germany	8
An analysis of the strategic plan development processes of major public organisations funding health research in nine high-income countries worldwide	8
What do we need to know? Data sources to support evidence-based decisions using health technology assessment in Ghana	8
Using participatory action research to improve immunization utilization in areas with pockets of unimmunized children in Nigeria	8
Rapid research response to the COVID-19 pandemic: perspectives from a National Institute for Health Biomedical Research Centre	8
Understanding the policy dynamics of COVID-19 vaccination in Ghana through the lens of a policy analytical framework	8
Health research capacity building of health workers in fragile and conflict-affected settings: a scoping review of challenges, strengths, and recommendations	8
Investigating the nature and quality of locally commissioned evaluations of the NHS Vanguard programme: an evidence synthesis	8
Measuring health science research and development in Africa: mapping the available data	8
Deconstructing design thinking as a tool for the implementation of a population health initiative	7
Inclusive planning: African policy inventory and South African mobility case study on the exclusion of persons with disabilities	7
A novel conceptual model and heuristic tool to strengthen understanding and capacities for health inequalities research	7
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	7
Open science at the science–policy interface: bringing in the evidence?	7

Barriers and facilitators to conducting economic evaluation studies of Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries: a survey of researchers	7
Four normative perspectives on public health policy-making and their preferences for bodies of evidence	7
A qualitative study of the development and utilization of health facility-based immunization microplans in Uganda	7
Mixed method evaluation of the CEBHA+ integrated knowledge translation approach: a protocol	7
Coevolution of COVID-19 research and China’s policies	7
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	7
Using a rapid environmental scan methodology to map country-level global health research expertise in Canada	7
Limitations of COVID-19 testing and case data for evidence-informed health policy and practice	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
Social media, vaccine hesitancy and trust deficit in immunization programs: a qualitative enquiry in Malappuram District of Kerala, India	7
Strategies for communicating scientific evidence on healthcare to managers and the population: a scoping review	7
An evaluation of the Victorian Salt Reduction Partnership’s advocacy strategy for policy change	7
Mapping the burden of diabetes in five small countries in Europe and setting the agenda for health policy and strategic action	7
Public health policy-making for hearing loss: stakeholders’ evaluation of a novel eHealth tool	7
Governance of health research in four eastern and southern African countries	7
Understanding the sustainment of population health programmes from a whole-of-system approach	7
Contributions of information and communications technology to future health systems and Universal Health Coverage: application of Japan’s experiences	7
Exploring how to sustain ‘place-based’ rural health academic research for informing rural health systems: a qualitative investigation	6
Communities of practice in Alberta Health Services: advancing a learning organisation	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
“There hasn’t been a career structure to step into”: a qualitative study on perceptions of allied health clinician researcher careers	6
A framework for considering the utility of models when facing tough decisions in public health: a guideline for policy-makers	6
Sugar-sweetened beverage tax implementation processes: results of a scoping review	6
Transforming the practice of medicine through team science	6
Integrating citizen engagement into evidence-informed health policy-making in eastern Europe and central Asia: scoping study and future research priorities	6
Comparative analysis of country-level enablers, barriers and recommendations to strengthen institutional capacity for evidence uptake in decision-making	6
Cross-cultural adaption and psychometric investigation of the German version of the Evidence Based Practice Attitude Scale (EBPAS-36D)	6
Clinical practice guidelines in Brazil – developing a national programme	6
Healthcare providers’ perspectives on integrating NCDs into primary healthcare in Thailand: a mixed method study	6
Blending an implementation science framework with principles of proportionate universalism to support physical activity promotion in primary healthcare while addressing health inequities	6
Exploring the possible sources of fiscal space for health in India: insights from political regimes	6
Evaluation of the National Health Insurance Program of Nepal: are political promises translated into actions?	6
Evaluating cancer research impact: lessons and examples from existing reviews on approaches to research impact assessment	6
The value of hackathons in integrated knowledge translation (iKT) research: Waterlupus	6
Rapid prioritisation of topics for rapid evaluation: the case of innovations in adult social care and social work	6
Outcomes from Indo–United States–Egypt tri-national psychiatric research training programmes	5
How frequently should “living” guidelines be updated? Insights from the Australian Living Stroke Guidelines	5
How can health technology assessment support our response to public health emergencies?	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
Engaged scholarship and public policy decision-making: a scoping review	5
A scoping review of complex systems methods used in population physical activity research: do they align with attributes of a whole system approach?	5
Psychological, social and technical factors influencing electronic medical records systems adoption by United States physicians: a systematic model	5
Policy dialogue and participation: a new way of crafting a national health financing strategy in Morocco	5
Stakeholders’ engagement in co-producing policy-relevant knowledge to facilitate employment for persons with developmental disabilities	5
Decision-maker led implementation research on immunization: learning from low- and middle-income countries	5
Assessing the governance of the health policy-making process using a new governance tool: the case of Lebanon	5
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	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
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
Saving millions of lives but some resources squandered: emerging lessons from health research system pandemic achievements and challenges	5
Assessing the impact of knowledge communication and dissemination strategies targeted at health policy-makers and managers: an overview of systematic reviews	5
Sixteen years of eHealth experiences in Iran: a qualitative content analysis of national policies	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
Improving WHO’s understanding of WHO guideline uptake and use in Member States: a scoping review	5
Collective reflections on the first cycle of a collaborative learning platform to strengthen rural primary healthcare in Mpumalanga, South Africa	5
Co-designing a theory-informed intervention to increase shared decision-making in maternity care	5
Describing implementation outcomes for a virtual community of practice: The ECHO Ontario Mental Health experience	5
Policy options to increase motivation for improving evidence-informed health policy-making in Iran	5
What funders are doing to assess the impact of their investments in health and biomedical research	5
Scaling up tobacco cessation within TB programmes: findings from a multi-country, mixed-methods implementation study	4
Is value-based payment for healthcare feasible under Ghana’s National Health Insurance Scheme?	4
Building capacity for integrated knowledge translation: a description of what we can learn from trainees’ experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic	4
PRIMASYS: a health policy and systems research approach for the assessment of country primary health care systems	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
Policy options for strengthening evidence-informed health policy-making in Iran: overall SASHA project findings	4
First Nations Australians’ self-determination in health and alcohol policy development: a Delphi study	4
Impact of good governance, economic growth and universal health coverage on COVID-19 infection and case fatality rates in Africa	4
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	4
The usability and applicability of knowledge translation theories, models, and frameworks for research in the context of a national health service	4
Resilience of primary healthcare system across low- and middle-income countries during COVID-19 pandemic: a scoping review	4
User involvement in ageing and health research: a survey of researchers’ and older adults’ perspectives	4
Assessing the impact of the Good Samaritan Law in the state of Connecticut: a system dynamics approach	4
Output-orientated policy engagement: a model for advancing the use of epidemiological evidence in health policy	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
A critical realist synthesis of cross-disciplinary health policy and systems research: defining characteristic features, developing an evaluation framework and identifying challenges	4
Implementing healthy food environment policies in New Zealand: nine years of inaction	4
Quality improvements of healthcare trajectories by learning from aggregated patient-reported outcomes: a mixed-methods systematic literature review	4
Competing public narratives in nutrition policy: insights into the ideational barriers of public support for regulatory nutrition measures	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
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
An analysis of the impact of newborn survival policies in Pakistan using a policy triangle framework	4
Health research knowledge translation into policy in Zambia: policy-maker and researcher perspectives	4
A narrative review of economic constructs in commonly used implementation and scale-up theories, frameworks and models	4
Prevalence and determinants of unmet needs for hypertension care among the older population in Selangor: cross-sectional study	4
Building a virtual community of practice: experience from the Canadian foundation for healthcare improvement’s policy circle	4
Repairing boundaries along pathways to tuberculosis case detection: a qualitative synthesis of intervention designs	4
Institutional-level drivers of gender-inequitable scientific career progression in sub-Saharan Africa	4
Hospital funding reforms in Canada: a narrative review of Ontario and Quebec strategies	4
A critical review of definitions of rural areas in Indonesia and implications for health workforce policy and research	4
Can healthy ageing moderate the effects of population ageing on economic growth and health spending trends in Mongolia? A modelling study	4
Defining research priorities for youth public mental health: reflections on a coproduction approach to transdisciplinary working	4
Standardising policy and technology responses in the immediate aftermath of a pandemic: a comparative and conceptual framework	4