Issue 1/2012
Content (38 Articles)
Clinical practice guidelines within the Southern African development community: a descriptive study of the quality of guideline development and concordance with best evidence for five priority diseases
Tamara Kredo, Annette Gerritsen, Johan van Heerden, Shaun Conway, Nandi Siegfried
Aligning vertical interventions to health systems: a case study of the HIV monitoring and evaluation system in South Africa
Mary Kawonga, Duane Blaauw, Sharon Fonn
A team approach to improving colorectal cancer services using administrative health data
Geoffrey Porter, Robin Urquhart, Jingyu Bu, Cynthia Kendell, Maureen MacIntyre, Ron Dewar, George Kephart, Yukiko Asada, Eva Grunfeld
The emergence and current performance of a health research system: lessons from Guinea Bissau
Maarten O Kok, Amabelia Rodrigues, Augusto Paulo Silva, Sylvia de Haan
Building tobacco control research in Thailand: meeting the need for innovative change in Asia
Stephen L Hamann, Jeremiah Mock, Sibasis Hense, Naowarut Charoenca, Nipapun Kungskulniti
Multi-criteria decision analysis for setting priorities on HIV/AIDS interventions in Thailand
Sitaporn Youngkong, Yot Teerawattananon, Sripen Tantivess, Rob Baltussen
Developing lay health worker policy in South Africa: a qualitative study
Karen Daniels, Marina Clarke, Karin C Ringsberg
Approaches to developing the capacity of health policy analysis institutes: a comparative case study
Sara Bennett, Adrijana Corluka, Jane Doherty, Viroj Tangcharoensathien
Looking for interaction: quantitative measurement of research utilization by Dutch local health officials
Joyce de Goede, Marja JH van Bon-Martens, Jolanda JP Mathijssen, Kim Putters, Hans AM van Oers
Public health research support through the European structural funds in central and eastern Europe and the Mediterranean
Mark McCarthy
Policy assessment and policy development for physical activity promotion: results of an exploratory intervention study in 15 European Nations
Alfred Rütten, Karim Abu-Omar, Peter Gelius, Susie Dinan-Young, Kerstin Frändin, Marijke Hopman-Rock, Archie Young
Striving for better health through health research in post-conflict Timor-Leste
Nelson Martins, Zoe Hawkins
Investing in African research training institutions creates sustainable capacity for Africa: the case of the University of the Witwatersrand School of Public Health masters programme in epidemiology and biostatistics
Ronel Kellerman, Kerstin Klipstein-Grobusch, Renay Weiner, Steven Wayling, Sharon Fonn
Knowledge mobilization in the context of health technology assessment: an exploratory case study
Monique F Fournier
Contribution mapping: a method for mapping the contribution of research to enhance its impact
Maarten O Kok, Albertine J Schuit
Leapfrog diagnostics: Demonstration of a broad spectrum pathogen identification platform in a resource-limited setting
Tomasz A Leski, Rashid Ansumana, Anthony P Malanoski, David H Jimmy, Umaru Bangura, Brian R Barrows, Morie Alpha, Bashiru M Koroma, Nina C Long, Abu J Sundufu, Alfred S Bockarie, Baochuan Lin, David A Stenger
Emergence of biopharmaceutical innovators in China, India, Brazil, and South Africa as global competitors and collaborators
Rahim Rezaie, Anita M McGahan, Sarah E Frew, Abdallah S Daar, Peter A Singer
Does a consumer training work? a follow-up survey of the PartecipaSalute training programs
Paola Mosconi, Roberto Satolli, Cinzia Colombo, Walter Villani
Implementation research evidence uptake and use for policy-making
Ulysses Panisset, Tracey Pérez Koehlmoos, Ahmad Hamdi Alkhatib, Tomás Pantoja, Prabal Singh, Jane Kengey-Kayondo, Ben McCutchen, González Block Ángel Miguel
A multi-faceted approach to promote knowledge translation platforms in eastern Mediterranean countries: climate for evidence-informed policy
Fadi El-Jardali, Nour Ataya, Diana Jamal, Maha Jaafar
Translation of tobacco policy into practice in disadvantaged and marginalized subpopulations: a study of challenges and opportunities in remote Australian Indigenous communities
Jan A Robertson, Katherine M Conigrave, Rowena Ivers, Kim Usher, Alan R Clough
Empowering communities in combating river blindness and the role of NGOs: case studies from Cameroon, Mali, Nigeria, and Uganda
Stefanie E O Meredith, Catherine Cross, Uche V Amazigo
Developing a national health research system: participatory approaches to legislative, institutional and networking dimensions in Zambia
Pascalina Chanda-Kapata, Sandy Campbell, Christina Zarowsky
Physicians in private practice: reasons for being a social franchise member
Dale Huntington, Gary Mundy, Nang Mo Hom, Qingfeng Li, Tin Aung
Mapping global health research investments, time for new thinking - A Babel Fish for research data
Robert F Terry, Liz Allen, Charles A Gardner, Javier Guzman, Mary Moran, Roderik F Viergever
A review of the health and economic implications of patent protection, with a specific focus on Thailand
Inthira Yamabhai, Richard D Smith
A scoping review about conference objectives and evaluative practices: how do we get more out of them?
Justin Neves, John N Lavis, M Kent Ranson
Creating a Knowledge Translation Platform: nine lessons from the Zambia Forum for Health Research
Joseph M Kasonde, Sandy Campbell
Studying policy implementation using a macro, meso and micro frame analysis: the case of the Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research & Care (CLAHRC) programme nationally and in North West London
Sarah EM Caldwell, Nicholas Mays
Engaging with economic evaluation methods: insights from small and medium enterprises in the UK medical devices industry after training workshops
Michael P Craven, Matthew J Allsop, Stephen P Morgan, Jennifer L Martin
Community-based organizations in the health sector: A scoping review
Michael G Wilson, John N Lavis, Adrian Guta
The multi-step process of building TB/HIV collaboration in Cambodia
Mao Tan Eang, Mean Chhi Vun, Khun Kim Eam, Samreth Sovannarith, Seng Sopheap, Ngauv Bora, Rajendra Yadav, Masami Fujita, Bernard Tomas, Massimo Ghidinelli, Pieter van Maaren, William A Wells
Strategies for providing healthcare services to street-dwellers in Dhaka city: Evidence from an operations research
Jasim Uddin, Tracey P Koehlmoos, Nirod C Saha, Ziaul Islam, Iqbal A Khan, MA Quaiyum
Research-policy partnerships - experiences of the Mental Health and Poverty Project in Ghana, South Africa, Uganda and Zambia
Tolib N Mirzoev, Maye A Omar, Andrew T Green, Philippa K Bird, Crick Lund, Angela Ofori-Atta, Victor Doku
The match between institutional elderly care management research and management challenges - a systematic literature review
Kaija Kokkonen, Sari Rissanen, Anneli Hujala
Current status of health technology reassessment of non-drug technologies: survey and key informant interviews
Laura E Leggett, Gail Mackean, Tom W Noseworthy, Lloyd Sutherland, Fiona Clement
Reporting of feasibility factors in publications on integrated treatment programs for women with substance abuse issues and their children: a systematic review and analysis
Joanna Henderson, Karen Milligan, Alison Niccols, Lehana Thabane, Wendy Sword, Ainsley Smith, Susan Rosenkranz
Working at the nexus between public health policy, practice and research. Dynamics of knowledge sharing in the Netherlands
Maria W Jansen, Evelyne De Leeuw, Marjan Hoeijmakers, Nanne K De Vries