[PDF] Top 20 SUPPORT Tools for evidence-informed health Policymaking (STP) 13: Preparing and using policy briefs to support evidence-informed policymaking

... given policy- maker's setting or of very limited applicability, and they may or may not give consideration to the impacts an option is likely to have on disadvantaged groups, and on equity in a specific ...a ... See full document

... that evidence-informed policymaking is well supported on high-priority ...to support evidence-informed pol- ...will support evidence-informed ...of ... See full document

... agement support, decision support, delivery system design, clinical information systems, the health system, and the community more generally ...the policy and programme options) that could be ... See full document

... to support the use of research evidence to inform health pol- icy decisions ...research evidence), user pull (efforts to facilitate research use, such as efforts to train policy- makers ... See full document

... between health systems may often result in a policy or programme option that is used in one setting not being feasible or acceptable in ...research evidence about an option can be applied to their ... See full document

... same policy or programme option have inconsistent results and there is no compel- ling explanation for such differences, there will also be less confidence in knowing the expected impacts arising from implementing ... See full document

... lay health worker interventions in primary and community healthcare grouped studies according to the health issues addressed by the lay health ...lay health work- ers to promote immunisation ... See full document

... a policy or programme has a different effect in different situations, the magnitudes of effects in different subgroups should be compared directly with each ...a policy or programme was not statistically ... See full document

... resource use should be made with data that are specific to the context where a policy decision must be made using transparent and locally relevant unit costs. If this is not possible, purchasing power ... See full document

... to support such 'rapid evidence assessments' is described later in this paper, while a further discussion of the quality of reviews is pro- vided in Article 8 ... See full document

... those health policies that focus on health systems arrangements including, for example, trade unions and business ...submitting evidence, com- Engagement of civil society in stages in the ... See full document

... research evidence to be considered together with the views, experiences and tacit knowledge of those who will be involved in, or affected by, future decisions about a high- priority ...of policy dialogues ... See full document

... towards evidence-based medicine (EBM), which focused initially on decision making by physicians ...other health professionals and consumers, and referred to as ‘evidence-based healthcare’ or ... See full document

... about health policies and pro- grammes and for those who support these decision ...research evidence. The series describes a set of tools that have been developed by the SUPporting ... See full document

... to health systems it is not pos- sible to find relevant and up-to-date systematic ...that health workers are critical to achieving the Millennium Develop- ment Goals (MDGs) and other health ...for ... See full document

... who support them need to deter- mine the causes of a ...current health system arrangements; or the cur- rent degree of implementation of an agreed upon course of ...problem, using malaria treatment ... See full document

... for health promotion and disease preven- ...directly informed policy decisions in Mexico, persuading the government "not only to continue with the programme, but also to expand it" ... See full document

... stakeholders; preparing evidence briefs, syntheses and summaries; providing evidence related services; convening dialogues and creating space for evidence informed deliberations ... See full document

... in using the Register to adequately measure immunisation rates and outcomes in specific populations, such as remote indigenous groups ...inform policymaking. The applicability of local evidence to ... See full document

... research evidence, which they noted must be tailored to suit the needs of policy- ...of policy briefs as an example of knowledge sharing tools that can encourage policymakers to receive ... See full document