General management topics:
Research into action
Country experiences
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How Should Public Money be Spent? - the Case of Health Research in Tanzania
Council on Health Research for Development, 2002
Defining an investment portfolio; ensuring that health research is undertaken most efficiently; national health research priorities; opportunities
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Research that Influences Policy and Practice: Characteristics of Operational Research to Improve Malaria Control in Mpumalanga Province, South Africa
David N Durrheim, Richard Speare and Anthony D Harries, Malaria Journal, 2002, 1.9
Local relevance, convincing local decision-makers, using scarce resources
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Research to action to address inequities: the experience of the Cape Town Equity Gauge
Vera Scott, Ruth Stern, David Sanders, Gavin Reagon and Verona Mathews, 2008, International Journal for Equity in Health
The Equity Tools for Managers Project, engages with health managers to develop two tools to address inequity: an Equity Measurement Tool which quantifies inequity in health service provision in financial terms, and a Equity Resource Allocation Tool which advocates for and guides action to rectify inequity in health service provision. The Water and Sanitation Project, engages with community structures and other sectors to address the problem of diarrhoea in one of the poorest areas in Cape Town through the establishment of a community forum and a pilot study into the acceptability of dry sanitation toilets.
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Using Research to Inform Health Policy: Barriers and Strategies in Developing Countries
Monique Hennink and Rob Stephenson, 2004, Social Statistics Division, University of Southampton
Dissemination of health research, communication, Malawi, Tanzania, India, Pakistan, developing countries
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Role of Health Systems Research in Policy, Planning, Management and Decision-making, with Reference to Pakistan
Khattak Fazli Hakim, 1997, Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal
Country context, aspects of health systems research, obstacles, suggestions
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Health Technology Assessment: An Introduction to Objectives, Role of Evidence, and Structure in Europe
Marcial Velasco-Garrido and Reinhard Busse, 2005, European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies
Evidence in assessment; assessing research; suitability of study design; direct and indirect links in causal pathways; summarizing research; relation between good evidence and recommendations
(14 pages, pdf 661KB)