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Critical variations often occur between a state’s initial public policy goals and its implementation outcomes. After two decades, the implementation of the free healthcare policy in Uganda has not achieved the...
Continuing high levels of population physical inactivity necessitate effective government policies to cultivate healthy physical activity (PA) environments. The Physical Activity Environment Policy Index (PA-E...
In the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic, health policymakers have been reflecting upon sustainability and resilience issues in health systems worldwide. Promoting sustainability and resilience requires polic...
Stakeholder engagement is increasingly crucial in healthcare research, particularly in diverse and complex settings such as India. Stakeholder engagement in health research is about collaborating with key part...
The 2021 European floods in Germany, Belgium, and the Netherlands significantly impacted healthcare. With climate change increasing flood risks, healthcare preparedness is essential. Floods affect healthcare d...
Stakeholders play a crucial role in the success of complex interventions, such as hearing conservation programmes (HCPs), where their active participation directly impacts outcomes. This study aimed to investi...
Codesign is increasingly valued in health research as a way to actively include stakeholders in the research process, particularly for groups that have been historically excluded, such as young people. Despite...
This study investigates the influence of collective risk perception on public compliance behaviour, aiming to elucidate why cities exhibit significant disparities in pandemic response effectiveness and complia...
Virtual reality (VR) technology has been useful in enhancing cancer-supportive care by alleviating pain, anxiety and emotional distress. However, its integration into oncology faces multiple barriers, includin...
To understand barriers and facilitators to the implementation of pulmonary rehabilitation guidelines in pulmonary and critical care medicine (PCCM) from an interdisciplinary perspective and to determine potent...
Maternal violence, in terms of obstetric violence and/or the disrespect and abuse of women and birthing people accessing maternity care, is a global concern. This mistreatment and experience of maternal violen...
Engaging in partnerships is key to the success of knowledge mobilization (KM) activities; however, how best to engage partners in KM activities in the context of paediatric pain and children’s health more broa...
The promotion of evidence-based policymaking (EBPM) is increasingly recognized globally for its potential to maximize health outcomes by efficiently utilizing finite resources and focusing on evidence. Althoug...
Health workers must implement severe acute malnutrition (SAM) guidelines to provide quality services for acutely malnourished children. Healthcare providers must adhere to the national severe acute malnutritio...
Despite many improvements in maternal, newborn, sexual, and reproductive health (RMNCAH) in sub-Saharan Africa, the overall progress remains inadequate and uneven. Some of the reasons for this include fragment...
We sought to adapt a peer navigator (PN) model to increase uptake of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) prevention, testing and treatment of street-involved youth (SIY) in Canada and Kenya. This article presen...
Canada’s clinical research landscape is limited by minimal community hospital engagement. However, research participation in community hospitals may increase the speed of trial enrolment, enhance the generaliz...
Cardiopulmonary resuscitation offers the potential to save a person’s life. However, this highly invasive medical treatment is not always appropriate, and the likelihood of success is relatively low. In Irelan...
Limited knowledge has been found on the policies of dementia prevention and control from low- and middle-income (LMIC) countries. This study aims to provide comprehensive evidence of policy progress regarding ...
The Canadian Centre on Substance Use and Addiction (CCSA) has a mandate to provide national leadership in evidence-informed analysis and knowledge mobilization to advance solutions that reduce substance-relate...
Current research ethics frameworks that oversee health and social care research, in the United Kingdom and internationally, originated in biomedical research, having positivist underpinnings and an orientation...
Healthcare insurance is one of the strategies to achieving universal health coverage and reduce health care inequality among rich and poor households. In line with this goal, the Ethiopian government launched ...
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic highlighted the crucial role of robust health research systems (HRSs) in supporting effective public health responses. Understanding the responses and lessons l...
Long coronavirus disease (COVID) presents a significant health challenge. Long-term monitoring is critical to support understanding of the condition, service planning and evaluation. We sought to identify and ...
The COVID-19 pandemic presented policymakers with time-sensitive decision problems and a rapidly increasing volume of research, not all of which was robust, or relevant to local contexts. A bespoke evidence re...
Globally, health and social care systems have been responding to the demand for better integrated service delivery to tackle complex public health and socioeconomic challenges. Similarly, services in the Unite...
Heterogeneity in implementing essential evidence-based early intervention for psychosis services (EIS) components persists despite existing fidelity standards/guidelines in many countries. Rapid-learning healt...
Countries, especially developing countries, are prone to economic crises, which are the consequences of various crises, including pandemics, climate crises, armed conflicts and migration. Therefore, policy-mak...
Excessive salt consumption has been linked with the emergence of hypertension, which further leads to cardiovascular disease development among other medical conditions. This has resulted in leading world insti...
Use of evidence to inform health policy and planning decisions is important to ensure effective, efficient and equitable interventions, yet there has been little examination of decentralized, regional health b...
There are few examples of public health programmes rooted in system dynamics methodology. The aim of this paper was to broaden the evidence-base on the implementation and evaluation of a system dynamics progra...
The medical research community widely endorses the importance of ensuring that research outputs are relevant and accessible to knowledge users, as well as the value of engaging the latter in the conduct of res...
Engaging knowledge users in health research is accelerating in Canada. Our objective was to examine perceptions of partnered health research among individuals involved in funded Canadian partnered health resea...
The use of real-world data is established in post-authorization regulatory processes such as pharmacovigilance of drugs and medical devices, but is still frequently challenged in the pre-authorization phase of...
In 2023, Israel introduced a legislative reform that, according to the Israeli Ministry of Health, aims to improve transparency and expand options for healthcare providers. This reform seeks to enhance patient...
Within Australia, there is increasing recognition of the importance and value of patient and public involvement, or consumer and community involvement (CCI), in health and medical research and healthcare impro...
Responsiveness is a critical dimension of public health, focussing on how health systems address the needs, preferences and expectations of the population. It plays a central role in improving and maintaining ...
Women with a history of hypertensive disorders of pregnancy are at an increased risk of cardiovascular disease. Although clinical practice guidelines for management of hypertensive disorders of pregnancy recom...
Globally, one in six people have disabilities. They often experience health inequities and many of them arise from system-level failures. This study aimed to assess the inclusion of people with disabilities in...
Tackling falsified and substandard medicines requires intersectoral collaboration, impact-oriented research and the effective application of research findings. However, the best way to organize research and in...
Learning healthcare communities (LHCCs) have been proposed as a next-generation evolution of learning health systems that can advance health equity; however, a practical mechanism for enabling the active and c...
Amongst other things, the drug regulator, Central Drugs Standard Control Organization (CDSCO), is responsible for regulating clinical trials that underlie drug approvals in India. Since 2009, CDSCO has mandate...
Collaboration among multiple stakeholders from different sectors requires a coherent coordination mechanism in implementing responses to public health emergencies such as coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) to...
Performance management (PM) systems in healthcare consist of many interacting interventions, such as contracts, scorecards and incentives. The diversity, complexity and poor description of PM interventions ham...
There are massive gaps in communication between health researchers and policy-makers in Nigeria, which constrains the use of research evidence for policy-making. Mass media can help in bridging the gaps, espec...
Challenges in the patient–provider relationship are prevalent, underscoring the importance of patient-centred care, which is respectful and responsive to patients’ needs. General practitioners (GPs), also know...
Primary care networks (PCNs) are increasingly being adopted in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) to improve the delivery of primary health care (PHC). Kenya has identified PCNs as a key reform to streng...
Childhood obesity is a preventable global public health challenge, increasingly recognized as a complex problem, stemming from complex drivers. Obesity is characterized by multiple interdependencies and divers...
In the context of research priority-setting, participants express their research priorities and ideas in various forms, ranging from narratives to explicit topics or questions. However, the transition from the...
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic placed a heavy strain on the United States healthcare system. Common hospital operational performances were impacted to varying degrees by the pandemic. This st...