Health Equity: [EQ] Sound Choices: Enhancing Capacity for Evidence-Informed Health Policy

Tuesday, October 30, 2007

[EQ] Sound Choices: Enhancing Capacity for Evidence-Informed Health Policy

Sound Choices: Enhancing Capacity for Evidence-Informed Health Policy

The Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research, Biennial Review - WHO – 2007

Available online as PDF file [172p.] at: http://www.who.int/alliance-hpsr/resources/Alliance_BR.pdf

“….While health systems constraints are increasingly recognized as primary barriers to the scaling up of health services and achievement of health goals, knowledge regarding how to improve health systems is often weak and frequently not well-utilized in policy-making.

The Review addresses how capacity constraints at the country level impede progress in generating policy-relevant health systems knowledge and employing such evidence in the policy process. Capacity constraints related to four main functions:
- research priority-setting,
- generating and disseminating knowledge,
- knowledge amplification and filtration, and
- finally applying evidence to policy process) are explored and illustrated using country examples.

The Review concludes with practical lessons for different groups of stakeholders including national health leaders, research institutions and international funding and development agencies….”

Call for Proposals: http://www.who.int/alliance-hpsr/callsforproposals/en/index.html

In association with the launch of the Biennial Review, and building directly upon the findings of "Sound Choices",
the Alliance is also launching three new calls for proposals that address:-

1. Strengthening health policy and systems research methodologies and promoting sound teaching of such methodologies
2. Innovative strategies to enhance capacity to apply health policy and systems research evidence in policy-making
3. Spread the message: disseminate the Alliance Biennial Review and promote action on capacity for health policy and systems research

Email the Alliance office to get a paperback version of the report (alliancehpsr@who.int).

URL: http://www.who.int/alliance-hpsr/en/

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Tuesday, October 30, 2007

[EQ] Sound Choices: Enhancing Capacity for Evidence-Informed Health Policy

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