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  1. Obesity is a multi-faceted problem that requires complex health system responses. While no single program or service is sufficient to meet every individual’s needs, some criteria that increase the likelihood o...

    Authors: Laura Thomas, Suzanne Robinson, Sharyn Burns, Helen Mitchell and Andrea Begley
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2025 23:10
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  2. The deteriorating mental health of children and young people in the United Kingdom poses a challenge that services and policy makers have found difficult to tackle. Kailo responds to this issue with a communit...

    Authors: Megan Keenan, Leanne Freeman, Ediane Santana de Lima, Katie Potter, Tim Hobbs, Ellis Ballard and Peter Fonagy
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2025 23:9
    Content type: Study Protocol Published on:

  3. During public health crises such as pandemics, governments must rapidly adopt and implement wide-reaching policies and programs (“public policy interventions”). A key takeaway from the coronavirus disease 2019...

    Authors: Unni Gopinathan, Ingeborg Elgersma, Therese Dalsbø, Mona Bjørbæk and Atle Fretheim
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2025 23:8
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  4. Evidence-based policymaking has increased policymakers’ capacity to make scientifically informed health policy decisions. However, reaping the benefits of this approach requires avoiding untrustworthy research...

    Authors: Marc A. Albert, Manoj M. Lalu and Agnes Grudniewicz
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2025 23:7
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  5. Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2D) remains a pressing public health concern. Despite advancements in antidiabetic medications, suboptimal medication adherence persists among many individuals with T2D, often due to...

    Authors: Debra Winberg, Elizabeth Nauman, Lizheng Shi, Brice L. Mohundro, Kelly Louis, Eboni G. Price-Haywood, Tiange Tang and Alessandra N. Bazzano
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2025 23:6
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  6. An increasing number of people live with chronic disease or multi-morbidity. Current consensus is that their care requires an integrated model bringing different professionals together to provide person-centre...

    Authors: Yuqi Zhang, Jonathan Stokes, Laura Anselmi, Peter Bower and Jin Xu
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2025 23:5
    Content type: Review Published on:

  7. The use of eHealth innovations is becoming increasingly important in improving health outcomes, especially for maternal and newborn health. However, planning and executing these innovations can be challenging ...

    Authors: Dabere Nigatu, Muluken Azage, Eyaya Misgan, Daniel A. Enquobahrie, Tegegn Kebebaw, Enyew Abate, Esubalew Alemneh, Mirkuzie Woldie and Tsinuel Girma
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2025 23:4
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  8. Non-pharmacological dementia research products, such as social and behavioural interventions, are generated in traditional university settings. These often experience challenges to impact practices that they w...

    Authors: Eden Meng Zhu, Martina Buljac-Samardžić, Kees Ahaus and Robbert Huijsman
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2025 23:3
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  9. Over the recent years, the self-care program has been a significant policy in the field of health. The WHO recommended self-care for every country and economic setting for reaching universal health coverage, p...

    Authors: Mohammadjavad Mohammadzade, Mostafa Amini-Rarani, Fereshteh Zamani-Alavijeh and Saeed Karimi
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2025 23:2
    Content type: Study Protocol Published on:

  10. Given the rapid growth of the field of health policy and systems research (HPSR), it is important to monitor the research environment, especially the evolution of HPSR research outputs in low- and middle-incom...

    Authors: Nino Paichadze, Emma K. Cook, Heather E. Rosen, Sara Kurtovic and Adnan A. Hyder
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2025 23:1
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  11. The access to anti-cancer medications is influenced by policies formed via the convergence of various stakeholders. The aim of this study is to identify and analyse the stakeholders involved in formulating and...

    Authors: Kamran Bagheri Lankarani, Leila Zarei, Esmaeil Alinezhad and Adel Sadeghdoost
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2024 22:178
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  12. Despite South Africa’s well-established Civil Registration and Vital Statistics system (CRVS) and good completeness of death registration, challenges persist in terms of the quality of cause of death informati...

    Authors: Carmen Sant Fruchtman, Natasha Kallis, Sudarshan Govender, Debbie Bradshaw, Daniel Cobos, Diane Morof and Pamela Groenewald
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2024 22:177
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  13. There is widespread enthusiasm for scaling interventions to strengthen health systems. However, little is known about the scalability of such interventions in Africa. In this study, we seek to assess the scala...

    Authors: Humphrey Cyprian Karamagi, Ali Ben Charif, Solyana Ngusbrhan Kidane, Araia Berhane, Jacinta Nzinga, Tewelde Yohannes, Thandekile Ntombikayise Moyo, Sokona Sy and Hillary Kipchumba Kipruto
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2024 22:176
    Content type: Study Protocol Published on:

  14. In South Kivu (Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo [DRC]), health districts (HDs) affected by chronic armed conflicts are devising coping mechanisms to continue offering healthcare services to the populat...

    Authors: Samuel Lwamushi Makali, Patricia St Louis, Hermès Karemere, Alice Wautié, Enrico Pavignani, Christian Molima Eboma, Rosine Bigirinama, Corneille Lembebu, Denis Porignon, Ghislain Bisimwa Balaluka, Philippe Donnen and Elisabeth Paul
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2024 22:175
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  15. Research indicates suboptimal uptake and impact of clinical practice guidelines in Dutch healthcare. Dutch guideline organizations, i.e. guideline developers, governmental agencies, health insurers and other n...

    Authors: Andrea C. Thoonsen, Hanneke Merten, Toby T. Broeders, Anika Gans, Ilse van Beusekom, Diana M. J. Delnoij and Martine C. de Bruijne
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2024 22:174
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  16. Governance and leadership are regarded as the most crucial aspects in delivering quality health care, and yet they are arguably the most complex functions of any health system. The objective of the study was t...

    Authors: Samuel Vuyo Mokoena and Panjasaram Naidoo
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2024 22:173
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  17. As envisioned by the 2010 Constitution, Kenya implemented a devolved system of government in March 2013, setting up 47 counties and a corresponding number of local governments. These counties differed in their...

    Authors: Bishnu Bahadur Thapa, Momotazur Rahman, Lawrence Were, Richard Wamai and Omar Galárraga
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2024 22:172
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  18. Access to clinical trials is limited for rural, regional and remote Australians, adding to the current health inequity between rural and metropolitan populations. The Australasian Teletrial Model was developed...

    Authors: Jenna Graffini, Karen Johnston, Alison Farrington, Steven M. McPhail and Sarah Larkins
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2024 22:171
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  19. Most forms of clinical research examine a very minute cross section of the patient journey. Much of the knowledge and evidence base driving current genomic medicine practice entails blind spots arising from un...

    Authors: Patrick J. Silva, Vasiliki Rahimzadeh, Reid Powell, Junaid Husain, Scott Grossman, Adam Hansen, Jennifer Hinkel, Rafael Rosengarten, Marcia G. Ory and Kenneth S. Ramos
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2024 22:170
    Content type: Comment Published on:

  20. To achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030, Thailand must engage in effective multi-sectoral collaboration (MSC). However, implementing MSC in Thailand presents significant challenges. Althoug...

    Authors: Bundit Sornpaisarn, Somsak Chunharas, Sarnti Sornpaisarn, Pairoj Saonuam, Rifat Farzan Nipun, Chaniphun Butryee, Bhubate Samutachak, Maneekwan Chandarasorn, Nattapon Supadulya, Suttikarn Chunsuttiwat, Sumonmarn Singha, Wiwat Rojanapithayakorn, Kumnuan Ungchusak and Jürgen Rehm
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2024 22:169
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  21. Pregnancy is the most delicate stage in human life that requires high quality and several types of food to meet maternal and foetal nutritional demands. During pregnancy, food taboo is practised habitually by ...

    Authors: Shiferaw Gelchu, Dessalegn Wirtu, Merga Dheresa, Dawit Galgalo and Haro Miesa
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2024 22:168
    Content type: Comment Published on:

  22. The payment methodology for diagnosis-related groups (DRG) has implications for both society and medical institutions. Our study aims to analyse the impact of the reform of the payment policy according to the ...

    Authors: Guangju Mo, Erchang Zhu, Xinlei Fang, Jingbo Ma, Sijing Kong, Xuan Guo and Zheng Lu
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2024 22:167
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  23. According to the WHO report and evaluations, Iran has a moderate prevalence of iron deficiency anaemia (IDA). The present study evaluates Iran’s IDA prevention and control policies by analysing the agenda-sett...

    Authors: Azadeh Dehghani, Maryam Rafraf, Fatemeh Mohammadi-Nasrabadi, Rahim Khodayari-Zarnaq and Negar Tavakoli
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2024 22:166
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  24. The Measures for Management of Investigator-Initiated Studies (IISs) Conducted by Healthcare Institutions (trial version) (referred to as Management Measures) has been piloted successively in 12 provincial reg...

    Authors: Xiayan Chen, Jiaxue Meng, Hongling Chu, Yangfeng Wu and Huijuan Li
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2024 22:165
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  25. In Canada, academic hospitals are the principal drivers of research and medical education, while community hospitals provide patient care to a majority of the population. Benefits of increasing community hospi...

    Authors: Kian Rego, Paige Gehrke, Madelyn P. Law, Kathryn Halverson, Dominique Piquette, Elaina Orlando, Susan M. Jack, Deborah Cook, Rosa Myrna Marticorena, Alexandra Binnie and Jennifer L. Y. Tsang
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2024 22:164
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  26. Transgender (trans) people experience high rates of sexual assault (SA) and intimate partner violence (IPV) and seldom receive the care and supports they need post-victimization. However, there is little to no...

    Authors: Janice Du Mont, Rachel Cheung, Joseph Friedman Burley, Sarah Daisy Kosa, C. Emma Kelly, Brittany A. E. Jakubiec, Sydney Brouillard-Coyle and Sheila Macdonald
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2024 22:163
    Content type: Research Published on:

  27. Integrated knowledge translation (IKT) aims to enhance evidence-informed decision-making in public health and healthcare by establishing continuous relationships between researchers and knowledge users, in par...

    Authors: Kerstin Sell, Eva Rehfuess, Jimmy Osuret, Esther Bayiga-Zziwa, Bezinash Geremew and Lisa Pfadenhauer
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2024 22:162
    Content type: Research Published on:

  28. In response to climate change-induced increases in heat periods, the WHO recommends the implementation of heat health action plans (HHAPs). In Germany, HHAPs are implemented neither comprehensively nor nationw...

    Authors: Karin Geffert, Stephan Voss, Eva Rehfuess and Bernd Rechel
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2024 22:161
    Content type: Research Published on:

  29. A complex systems perspective is gaining popularity in research on socioeconomic inequalities in health and health behaviour, though there may be a gap between its popularity and the way it is implemented. Bui...

    Authors: Andrea L. Mudd, Michèlle Bal, Sanne E. Verra, Maartje P. Poelman and Carlijn B. M. Kamphuis
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2024 22:160
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  30. The use of low-value care (LVC) is a persistent challenge in health care. Health technology reassessment (HTR) assesses the effects of technologies currently used in the health care system to guide optimal use...

    Authors: Sara Ingvarsson, Henna Hasson, Ulrica von Thiele Schwarz, Per Nilsen, Marta Roczniewska and Hanna Augustsson
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2024 22:159
    Content type: Research Published on:

  31. It is widely recognized that use of research evidence to guide health policy and practice could lead to adoption of life-saving interventions and more effective resource allocation. However, the skills around ...

    Authors: Olive W. Yini Karway, Jeremiah Wleh, Yamah Kpatakolee, Joseph Sieka, Neima Candy, Kristina Talbert-Slagle, Bernice T. Dahn, Wahdae-Mai Harmon-Gray and Laura A. Skrip
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2024 22:158
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  32. The phenomenon of growth in drug consumption within the framework of national volume-based procurement (VBP) policy raises speculations about demand release and policy inducing. This study aims to explore the ...

    Authors: Ying Yang, Jieming Zhang, Yuanhui Duan, Lei Zhou, Sisheng Gan, Zongfu Mao, Shaotang Wu and Furong Wang
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2024 22:157
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  33. Costing and financing systematic implementation are recognized barriers to human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) prevention. In the absence of empiric implementation and economic data, perspectives from internati...

    Authors: Craig J. Heck, Katharine Kripke, Anita Dam, Sergio Torres-Rueda, Fiammetta Bozzani, Chris Obermeyer, Kibret Yohannes, Justine Deacon, Kathrine Meyers, Daniela Quigee, Sarah Wiant, Steven Forsythe, Christine Malati, Martha Larson, Magdalena E. Sobieszczyk and Delivette Castor
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2024 22:156
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  34. There is an increasing need to provide evidence of outcomes within the community services sector. However, funding challenges, workforce pressures, and the complex social contexts in which community service or...

    Authors: Bianca E. Kavanagh, Vincent L. Versace and Kevin P. Mc Namara
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2024 22:155
    Content type: Comment Published on:

  35. The World Health Organization (WHO) encourages all member states to adopt and implement a package of essential evidence-based interventions called the Best Buys to reduce the burden of non-communicable disease...

    Authors: Leonard Baatiema, Olutobi Adekunle Sanuade, Irene Akwo Kretchy, Lydia Okoibhole, Sandra Boatemaa Kushitor, Hassan Haghparast-Bidgoli, Raphael Baffour Awuah, Samuel Amon, Sedzro Kojo Mensah, Carlos S. Grijalva-Eternod, Kafui Adjaye-Gbewonyo, Publa Antwi, Hannah Maria Jennings, Daniel Kojo Arhinful, Moses Aikins, Kwadwo Koram…
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2024 22:154
    Content type: Research Published on:

  36. Mathematical models and advanced analytics play an important role in policy decision making and mobilizing action. The Imperial College Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Response Team (ICCRT) provided contin...

    Authors: Sabine L. van Elsland, Ryan M. O’Hare, Ruth McCabe, Daniel J. Laydon, Neil M. Ferguson, Anne Cori and Paula Christen
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2024 22:153
    Content type: Research Published on:

  37. The transplantation of human organs, and some human tissues, is often the only life-saving therapy available for serious and life-threatening congenital, inherited or acquired diseases. However, it is associat...

    Authors: Melissa A. Greenwald, Hussein Ezzeldin, Emily A. Blumberg, Barbee I. Whitaker and Richard A. Forshee
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2024 22:152
    Content type: Research Published on:

  38. Low-quality care for low back pain (LBP) is pervasive in Australia. Drivers of low-quality care have been identified elsewhere and include misconceptions about LBP, vested interests and limited funding for evi...

    Authors: Nathalia Costa, Carmen Huckel Schneider, Anita Amorim, Sarika Parambath and Fiona Blyth
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2024 22:151
    Content type: Research Published on:

  39. The purpose of this study was to identify and describe common views of people with lived experience of mental health challenges – consumers and carers, families and supporters – of what they consider the most ...

    Authors: Rachel O’Loughlin, Caroline Lambert, Gemma Olsen, Kate Thwaites, Keir Saltmarsh, Julie Anderson, Nancy Devlin, Harriet Hiscock and Kim Dalziel
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2024 22:150
    Content type: Research Published on:

  40. Authors: Abdul Ghafar, Abdulgafoor M. Bachani, Adnan A. Hyder, Alarcos Cieza, Aneel Bhangu, André Bussières, Diana C. Sanchez-Ramirez, Dorcas B. C. Gandhi, Jeanine Verbunt, Kumanan Rasanathan, Louise Gustafsson, Pierre Côté, Rajiv Reebye, Roger De la Cerna-Luna, Stefano Negrini, Walter R. Frontera…
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2024 22:149
    Content type: Correction Published on:

    The original article was published in Health Research Policy and Systems 2024 22:143

  41. The implementation of the maternal perinatal death surveillance and response (MPDSR) policy is among the envisaged strategies to reduce the high global burden of maternal and perinatal mortality and morbidity....

    Authors: David Roger Walugembe, Katrina Plamondon, Frank Kaharuza, Peter Waiswa, Lloy Wylie, Nadine Wathen and Anita Kothari
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2024 22:148
    Content type: Research Published on:

  43. Spending on preventive care in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), including Indonesia, is much lower than spending on curative care. There has been a pressing need to develop a clear pathway to increase...

    Authors: Ahmad Fuady, Mariska Anindhita, Matsna Haniifah, Abdillah Ahsan, Agus Sugiharto, Marinda Asiah Nuril Haya, Trevino Pakasi, Dian Kusuma, Dewi Amila Solikha, Pungkas Bahjuri Ali and Indah Suci Widyahening
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2024 22:146
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  44. The increasing availability of large volumes of personal data from diverse sources such as electronic health records, research programmes, commercial genetic testing, national health surveys and wearable devic...

    Authors: Nchangwi Syntia Munung, Ciara Staunton, Otshepeng Mazibuko, P. J. Wall and Ambroise Wonkam
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2024 22:145
    Content type: Research Published on:

  45. Evaluating health system interventions for elderly care necessitates a context-specific, credible and dependable instrument. This research was dedicated to creating and validating a tool to assess the health s...

    Authors: Badriyeh Karami, Maryam Tajvar, Abbas Ostadtaghizadeh and Mehdi Yaseri
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2024 22:144
    Content type: Research Published on:

  46. Despite recognized need and reasonable demand, health systems and rehabilitation communities keep working in silos, independently with minimal recognition to the issues of those who require rehabilitation serv...

    Authors: Abdul Ghaffar, Abdulgafoor M. Bachani, Adnan A. Hyder, Alarcos Cieza, Aneel Bhangu, André Bussières, Diana C. Sanchez-Ramirez, Dorcas B. C. Gandhi, Jeanine Verbunt, Kumanan Rasanathan, Louise Gustafsson, Pierre Côté, Rajiv Reebye, Roger De la Cerna-Luna, Stefano Negrini, Walter R. Frontera…
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2024 22:143
    Content type: Perspective Published on:

    The Correction to this article has been published in Health Research Policy and Systems 2024 22:149

  47. Ghana introduced a free maternal healthcare policy within its National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) in 2008 to remove financial barriers to accessing maternal health services. Despite this policy, evidence s...

    Authors: Kennedy A. Alatinga, Vivian Hsu, Gilbert Abotisem Abiiro, Edmund Wedam Kanmiki, Emmanuel Kofi Gyan and Cheryl A. Moyer
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2024 22:142
    Content type: Research Published on:

  48. Globally, community health worker (CHW) programmes are critical to addressing health worker shortages and have been recognised as critical pillars within the drive towards universal health coverage (UHC). In 2...

    Authors: Georgina Zawolo, Gertrude Nsorma Nyaaba, Gartee Nallo, Karsor Kollie, Rachael Thomson, Joanna Raven, Sally Theobald and Laura Dean
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2024 22:141
    Content type: Research Published on:

  49. Authors: Shilpa John, Sudha Ramani, Syed Mohd Abbas, Sumit Kane, Dorothy Lall, Prashanth N. Srinivas, Devaki Nambiar, Bruno Marchal, Sara Van Belle, Rajeev Sadanandan and Narayanan Devadasan
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2024 22:140
    Content type: Correction Published on:

    The original article was published in Health Research Policy and Systems 2024 22:129

  50. The development of drug policies has been a major focus for policy-makers across North America in light of the ongoing public health emergency caused by the overdose crisis. In this context, the current study ...

    Authors: Naomi Zakimi, Martin Bouchard, Alison Ritter and Alissa Greer
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2024 22:139
    Content type: Research Published on:
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