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: 9. CHWs’ relationships with the health system and communities	40
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: 5. Roles and tasks	38
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: 8. Incentives and remuneration	37
Applying systems thinking to knowledge mobilisation in public health	36
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: 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
Health communication in and out of public health emergencies: to persuade or to inform?	32
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
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
Framing rehabilitation through health policy and systems research: priorities for strengthening rehabilitation	29
A 10-year longitudinal evaluation of science policy interventions to promote sex and gender in health research	29

The qualitative experience of telehealth access and clinical encounters in Australian healthcare during COVID-19: implications for policy	27
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
Bridging the research–practice gap in healthcare: a rapid review of research translation centres in England and Australia	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
Successes and challenges of health systems governance towards universal health coverage and global health security: a narrative review and synthesis of the literature	24
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
A systems approach to scale-up for population health improvement	22
Where is critical analysis of power and positionality in knowledge translation?	21
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
How to bring research evidence into policy? Synthesizing strategies of five research projects in low-and middle-income countries	20
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
A landscape analysis of health technology assessment capacity in the Association of South-East Asian Nations region	19
Health research system resilience: lesson learned from the COVID-19 crisis	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
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
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
A scoping review of systems approaches for increasing physical activity in populations	16
The opioid crisis: need for systems science research	16
Tools for assessing the scalability of innovations in health: a systematic review	16
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Challenges encountered in comparing international policy responses to COVID-19 and their effects	11
Indicators to evaluate organisational knowledge brokers: a scoping review	11
Measuring health science research and development in Africa: mapping the available data	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
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
The MULTI-ACT model: the path forward for participatory and anticipatory governance in health research and care	11
Developing pathways for community-led research with big data: a content analysis of stakeholder interviews	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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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