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  1. Knowledge creation (KC) produces resources to synthesize policy evidence and contributes to breakthroughs in unresolved health problems by discovering the previously unknown. Nevertheless, few studies have att...

    Authors: Ji Eun Park, Seung-Ah Choe, Saerom Kim and Hye Sook Min
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2025 23:62
  2. Nepal witnessed a tumultuous journey over past two centuries, marked by significant political, social, and cultural shifts. From fighting British colonial encroachments in 1800s, the dynastic Rana regime (1846...

    Authors: Shiva Raj Mishra, Kamal Ghimire, Vishnu Khanal, Diptesh Aryal, Bijaya Shrestha, Pratik Khanal, Sanjay Yadav, Vinita Sharma, Resham Khatri, Dan Schwarz and Bipin Adhikari
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2025 23:61
  3. Critical variations often occur between a state’s initial public policy goals and its implementation outcomes. After two decades, the implementation of the free healthcare policy in Uganda has not achieved the...

    Authors: Prossy Kiddu Namyalo, Cyndirela Chadambuka, Lisa Forman, Beverley M. Essue and Freddie Ssengooba
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2025 23:60
  4. Continuing high levels of population physical inactivity necessitate effective government policies to cultivate healthy physical activity (PA) environments. The Physical Activity Environment Policy Index (PA-E...

    Authors: Fleur Heuvelman, Jeroen Lakerveld, Kevin Volf, Catherine B. Woods, Suzanne van Mourik-Boelema, Saskia van den Berg and Nicolette R. den Braver
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2025 23:59
  5. In the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic, health policymakers have been reflecting upon sustainability and resilience issues in health systems worldwide. Promoting sustainability and resilience requires polic...

    Authors: Mónica D. Oliveira, Aida I. Tavares, Rafael Miranda, Rosário Trindade and Ana C. L. Vieira
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2025 23:58
  6. Stakeholder engagement is increasingly crucial in healthcare research, particularly in diverse and complex settings such as India. Stakeholder engagement in health research is about collaborating with key part...

    Authors: Remya U. Rajendran, Baby S. Nayak, N. Siva, Tenzin Phagdol, Mamatha Shivananda Pai, Preethy D’Souza and Judith Angelitta Noronha
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2025 23:57
  7. The 2021 European floods in Germany, Belgium, and the Netherlands significantly impacted healthcare. With climate change increasing flood risks, healthcare preparedness is essential. Floods affect healthcare d...

    Authors: Robert A. J. Borst, Yared Abayneh Abebe, Karin van Vuuren, Julien Magana, Bert de Graaff, Saba Hinrichs-Krapels, Bas Kolen, Maria Pregnolato, Anja Schreijer, Tina Comes, Sebastiaan N. Jonkman and Roland Bal
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2025 23:56
  8. Stakeholders play a crucial role in the success of complex interventions, such as hearing conservation programmes (HCPs), where their active participation directly impacts outcomes. This study aimed to investi...

    Authors: Nomfundo Moroe and Katijah Khoza-Shangase
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2025 23:55
  9. Codesign is increasingly valued in health research as a way to actively include stakeholders in the research process, particularly for groups that have been historically excluded, such as young people. Despite...

    Authors: Briony Lipton, Jodie Bailie, Helen Dickinson, Belinda Hewitt, Emma Cooper, Anne Kavanagh, Zoe Aitken and Marissa Shields
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2025 23:54
  10. This study investigates the influence of collective risk perception on public compliance behaviour, aiming to elucidate why cities exhibit significant disparities in pandemic response effectiveness and complia...

    Authors: Wen Hong and Beier Zhou
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2025 23:53
  11. To understand barriers and facilitators to the implementation of pulmonary rehabilitation guidelines in pulmonary and critical care medicine (PCCM) from an interdisciplinary perspective and to determine potent...

    Authors: Yuanmin Jia, Guilin Cheng, Haixia Wang, Bin Ma, Yingying Cai, Xiaohe Ren, Yufang Guo, Junlian Gu and Ou Chen
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2025 23:51
  12. Engaging in partnerships is key to the success of knowledge mobilization (KM) activities; however, how best to engage partners in KM activities in the context of paediatric pain and children’s health more broa...

    Authors: Nicole E. MacKenzie, Christine T. Chambers, Deborah A. Marshall, Christine E. Cassidy, Penny V. Corkum, Meghan E. McGrady, Jennifer A. Parker, Karen V. MacDonald and Kathryn A. Birnie
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2025 23:49
  13. The promotion of evidence-based policymaking (EBPM) is increasingly recognized globally for its potential to maximize health outcomes by efficiently utilizing finite resources and focusing on evidence. Althoug...

    Authors: Yuko Arimura, Yuko Yanagawa, Shota Kiuchi, Haruka Matsuyama, Hinata Uehata, Maiko Suto, Hisaya Tomori, Kenji Takehara and Sonoko Sensaki
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2025 23:48
  14. Health workers must implement severe acute malnutrition (SAM) guidelines to provide quality services for acutely malnourished children. Healthcare providers must adhere to the national severe acute malnutritio...

    Authors: Mohamed Yimam, Asnakew Molla Mekonen, Mengistu Mera Mihiretu, Dagnachew Melak, Shbre Tsegaw and Fanos Yeshanew Ayele
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2025 23:47
  15. Despite many improvements in maternal, newborn, sexual, and reproductive health (RMNCAH) in sub-Saharan Africa, the overall progress remains inadequate and uneven. Some of the reasons for this include fragment...

    Authors: Charles Ibingira, Josaphat Byamugisha, Elizeus Rutebemberwa, Lynn Atuyambe, Richard Mugahi and Emmanuel Odongo
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2025 23:46
  16. We sought to adapt a peer navigator (PN) model to increase uptake of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) prevention, testing and treatment of street-involved youth (SIY) in Canada and Kenya. This article presen...

    Authors: Edward Ou Jin Lee, Thai-Son Tang, Javi Fuentes-Bernal, Katie MacEntee, Juddy Wachira, Edith Apondi, Alex Abramovich, Abe Oudshoorn, David Ayuku, Reuben Kiptui, Amy Van Berkum, Sue-Ann MacDonald, Olli Saarela and Paula Braitstein
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2025 23:45
  17. Canada’s clinical research landscape is limited by minimal community hospital engagement. However, research participation in community hospitals may increase the speed of trial enrolment, enhance the generaliz...

    Authors: Elaina Orlando, Alexandra Binnie and Jennifer Tsang
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2025 23:44
  18. Cardiopulmonary resuscitation offers the potential to save a person’s life. However, this highly invasive medical treatment is not always appropriate, and the likelihood of success is relatively low. In Irelan...

    Authors: John Lombard, Hope Davidson and Owen Doody
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2025 23:43
  19. The Canadian Centre on Substance Use and Addiction (CCSA) has a mandate to provide national leadership in evidence-informed analysis and knowledge mobilization to advance solutions that reduce substance-relate...

    Authors: Sheena Taha, Shea Wood, Chandni Sondagar, Eftyhia Helis, Doris Payer and Miguel Hernandez-Basurto
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2025 23:41
  20. Current research ethics frameworks that oversee health and social care research, in the United Kingdom and internationally, originated in biomedical research, having positivist underpinnings and an orientation...

    Authors: Chiara De Poli, Jan Oyebode, Mara Airoldi, Martin Stevens, Andrea Capstick, Nicholas Mays, Michael Clark, Annelieke Driessen, Carol Rivas, Bridget Penhale, James R. Fletcher and Amy M. Russell
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2025 23:40
  21. Healthcare insurance is one of the strategies to achieving universal health coverage and reduce health care inequality among rich and poor households. In line with this goal, the Ethiopian government launched ...

    Authors: Melkamu Workie Tadesse, Ayenew Hailu Gebremichael and Fentahun Baylie Sendekie
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2025 23:39
  22. The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic highlighted the crucial role of robust health research systems (HRSs) in supporting effective public health responses. Understanding the responses and lessons l...

    Authors: Mark Embrett, Andrea Carson, Meaghan Sim, Aislinn Conway, Emily Moore, Kristy Hancock and Iwona Bielska
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2025 23:38
  23. Long coronavirus disease (COVID) presents a significant health challenge. Long-term monitoring is critical to support understanding of the condition, service planning and evaluation. We sought to identify and ...

    Authors: Josephine Exley, Edmund Stubbs, Raphael Wittenberg and Nicholas Mays
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2025 23:37
  24. The COVID-19 pandemic presented policymakers with time-sensitive decision problems and a rapidly increasing volume of research, not all of which was robust, or relevant to local contexts. A bespoke evidence re...

    Authors: Ruth Lewis, Alison Cooper, David Jarrom, Mala Mann, Rebecca-Jane Law, Deborah Edwards, Judith Carrier, Hannah Shaw, Tom Winfield, Llinos Haf Spencer, Jane Noyes, Helen Morgan, Jennifer Washington, Elise Hasler, Micaela Gal, Elizabeth Doe…
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2025 23:36
  25. Globally, health and social care systems have been responding to the demand for better integrated service delivery to tackle complex public health and socioeconomic challenges. Similarly, services in the Unite...

    Authors: Kristof Santa, Zsofia Boda, Buket Kara, Jörg Huber, Heather Catt and Barbara Mezes
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2025 23:35
  26. Heterogeneity in implementing essential evidence-based early intervention for psychosis services (EIS) components persists despite existing fidelity standards/guidelines in many countries. Rapid-learning healt...

    Authors: Manuela Ferrari, Marianne-Sarah Saulnier, Srividya N. Iyer, Marc-André Roy and Amal Abdel-Baki
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2025 23:34
  27. Countries, especially developing countries, are prone to economic crises, which are the consequences of various crises, including pandemics, climate crises, armed conflicts and migration. Therefore, policy-mak...

    Authors: Zeynab Foroughi, Parvin Ebrahimi, Shahram Yazdani, Aidin Aryankhesal, Majid Heydari and Mohammadreza Maleki
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2025 23:33
  28. Excessive salt consumption has been linked with the emergence of hypertension, which further leads to cardiovascular disease development among other medical conditions. This has resulted in leading world insti...

    Authors: Ian Osoro and M. G. Rajanandh
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2025 23:32
  29. There are few examples of public health programmes rooted in system dynamics methodology. The aim of this paper was to broaden the evidence-base on the implementation and evaluation of a system dynamics progra...

    Authors: Naomi de Pooter, Angie Luna Pinzon, Karen den Hertog, Teatske Altenburg, Vincent Busch, Coosje Dijkstra, Helga Emke, Meredith Overman, Carry Renders, Jacob Seidell, Arnoud Verhoeff, Mai Chinapaw, Karien Stronks and Wilma Waterlander
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2025 23:30
  30. The medical research community widely endorses the importance of ensuring that research outputs are relevant and accessible to knowledge users, as well as the value of engaging the latter in the conduct of res...

    Authors: Bogna A. Drozdowska, Nora Cristall, Joachim Fladt, Tanaporn Jaroenngarmsamer, Arshia Sehgal, Rosalie McDonough, Mayank Goyal and Aravind Ganesh
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2025 23:29
  31. Engaging knowledge users in health research is accelerating in Canada. Our objective was to examine perceptions of partnered health research among individuals involved in funded Canadian partnered health resea...

    Authors: Kathryn M. Sibley, Leah K. Crockett, Heather L. Gainforth, Ian D. Graham, Femke Hoekstra, Jeff S. Healey, Masood Khan, Sara Kreindler, Kent C. Loftsgard, Christopher B. McBride, Kelly J. Mrklas and Alexie J. Touchette
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2025 23:28
  32. The use of real-world data is established in post-authorization regulatory processes such as pharmacovigilance of drugs and medical devices, but is still frequently challenged in the pre-authorization phase of...

    Authors: Jonas Peltner, Cornelia Becker, Julia Wicherski, Silja Wortberg, Mohamed Aborageh, Inês Costa, Vera Ehrenstein, Joana Fernandes, Steffen Heß, Erzsébet Horváth-Puhó, Monika Roberta Korcinska Handest, Manuel Lentzen, Peggy Maguire, Niels Henrik Meedom, Rebecca Moore, Vanessa Moore…
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2025 23:27
  33. In 2023, Israel introduced a legislative reform that, according to the Israeli Ministry of Health, aims to improve transparency and expand options for healthcare providers. This reform seeks to enhance patient...

    Authors: Gideon Leibner and Shuli Brammli-Greenberg
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2025 23:26
  34. Within Australia, there is increasing recognition of the importance and value of patient and public involvement, or consumer and community involvement (CCI), in health and medical research and healthcare impro...

    Authors: Ashley H. Ng, Sandra Reeder, Angela Jones, Ainslie Cahill, Debra Langridge, Susanne Baker, Leah Heiss, Alan Dorin and Helena Teede
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2025 23:25
  35. Responsiveness is a critical dimension of public health, focussing on how health systems address the needs, preferences and expectations of the population. It plays a central role in improving and maintaining ...

    Authors: Hooman Khanpoor, Ahad Alizadeh, Omid Khosravizadeh, Mohammad Amerzadeh and Sima Rafiei
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2025 23:24
  36. Women with a history of hypertensive disorders of pregnancy are at an increased risk of cardiovascular disease. Although clinical practice guidelines for management of hypertensive disorders of pregnancy recom...

    Authors: Kaylee Slater, Rachael Taylor, Karen McLaughlin, Craig E. Pennell, Karyn Forbes, Milena Marcetic, Clare E. Collins and Melinda Hutchesson
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2025 23:23
  37. Globally, one in six people have disabilities. They often experience health inequities and many of them arise from system-level failures. This study aimed to assess the inclusion of people with disabilities in...

    Authors: Danae Rodríguez Gatta, Constanza Piriz Tapia, Elvira Tagle Schmidt, Jimena Luna Benavides, Daniel Vivar Jara, Rodrigo Moreno Celis, Gonzalo Tobar Carrizo, Judit Vilaró Cáceres, Phyllis Heydt, Lena Morgon Banks and Hannah Kuper
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2025 23:22
  38. Tackling falsified and substandard medicines requires intersectoral collaboration, impact-oriented research and the effective application of research findings. However, the best way to organize research and in...

    Authors: Amalia Hasnida, Roland Bal, Reise Manninda, Stanley Saputra, Yunita Nugrahani, Faradiba Faradiba and Maarten Olivier Kok
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2025 23:21
  39. Learning healthcare communities (LHCCs) have been proposed as a next-generation evolution of learning health systems that can advance health equity; however, a practical mechanism for enabling the active and c...

    Authors: Sarah M. McNeilly, Katherine W. Wang, Sarah A. Jacobs, Nang S. Yone, Debra A. Williams, Bruce D. Rapkin, Caroline Davis Joseph and Damara N. Gutnick
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2025 23:20
  40. Amongst other things, the drug regulator, Central Drugs Standard Control Organization (CDSCO), is responsible for regulating clinical trials that underlie drug approvals in India. Since 2009, CDSCO has mandate...

    Authors: Adithi Gopadi Ravindranath, Albin Benny, Iqbal S. Bhalla, Ravi Vaswani and Gayatri Saberwal
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2025 23:19
  41. Collaboration among multiple stakeholders from different sectors requires a coherent coordination mechanism in implementing responses to public health emergencies such as coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) to...

    Authors: Uchenna Ezenwaka, Chinyere Mbachu and Obinna Onwujekwe
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2025 23:18
  42. Performance management (PM) systems in healthcare consist of many interacting interventions, such as contracts, scorecards and incentives. The diversity, complexity and poor description of PM interventions ham...

    Authors: Jenna M. Evans and Sarah M. Wheeler
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2025 23:17
  43. There are massive gaps in communication between health researchers and policy-makers in Nigeria, which constrains the use of research evidence for policy-making. Mass media can help in bridging the gaps, espec...

    Authors: Prince Agwu, Chinyere Mbachu and Obinna Onwujekwe
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2025 23:16
  44. Challenges in the patient–provider relationship are prevalent, underscoring the importance of patient-centred care, which is respectful and responsive to patients’ needs. General practitioners (GPs), also know...

    Authors: Wenhui Li, Min Su, Zhengrong Li and Xiaojing Fan
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2025 23:15
  45. Primary care networks (PCNs) are increasingly being adopted in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) to improve the delivery of primary health care (PHC). Kenya has identified PCNs as a key reform to streng...

    Authors: Beatrice Amboko, Jacinta Nzinga, Benjamin Tsofa, Peter Mugo, Anita Musiega, Beryl Maritim, Ethan Wong, Caitlin Mazzilli, Wangari Ng’ang’a, Brittany Hagedorn, Gillian Turner, Anne Musuva, Felix Murira, Nirmala Ravishankar, Salim Hussein and Edwine Barasa
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2025 23:14
  46. Childhood obesity is a preventable global public health challenge, increasingly recognized as a complex problem, stemming from complex drivers. Obesity is characterized by multiple interdependencies and divers...

    Authors: Knud Ryom, Paul Bloch, Ulla Toft, Didde Høeg, Louise T. Thomsen, Steven Allender, Harry Rutter, Adrian Bauman, Rikke Fredenslund Krølner and Anders Blædel Gottlieb Hansen
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2025 23:13