Education, knowledge and technology
- Overcoming gaps to advance global health equity: a symposium on new directions for research
- J. Frenk / Health Research Policy and Systems, 2011
- The 20th anniversary of the groundbreaking report of the Commission on Health Research for Development inspired a Symposium to assess progress made in strengthening essential national health research ...
- Decentralization of the provision of health services to people living with HIV/AIDS in rural China: the case of three counties
- X. Zhang / Health Research Policy and Systems, 2011
- This study is based on a large-scale household survey and in-depth interviews of key informants that was conducted in villages in three counties of two provinces in China. It assessed the new decentra...
- An assessment of mental health policy in Ghana, South Africa, Uganda and Zambia
- E. Faydi / Health Research Policy and Systems, 2011
- Approximately half of the countries in the African Region had a mental health policy by 2005, but little is known about quality of mental health policies in Africa and globally. This paper reports the...
- Theory and practice: a case study of coordination and ownership in the Bangladesh health SWAp
- J. Sundewall; B. C. Forsberg; G. Tomson / Health Research Policy and Systems, 2006
- This paper, published in the Health Research Policy and Systems journal, examines how partners involved in health Sector Wide Approaches (SWAps) in Bangladesh define ownership and coordination in thei...
- The utilisation of health research in policy making: concepts, examples and methods of assessment
- S. Hanney; M. Gonzalez-Block; M. Buxton; M. Kogan / Health Research Policy and Systems, 2003
- This article explores the issues surrounding the utilisation of health research in policy-making and reviews the various forms of policy-making.It argues that research can make a contribution in at...
- Public private partnerships in health: a global call to action
- S. Nishtar / Health Research Policy and Systems, 2004
- This paper, produced by Health Research Policy and Systems, outlines key challenges in public-private arrangements in health care and makes a Global Call to Action to address these challenges. The au...
- Health policy and systems research agendas in developing countries
- M.A. Gonzalez-Block / Health Research Policy and Systems, 2004
- This article, published in Health Research Policy and Systems, examines current research agendas relating to health policy and systems in developing countries. Surveys show that the highest ranking t...
- Knowledge of AIDS and HIV risk-related sexual behavior among Nigerian naval personnel
- U. Adaji Nwokoji; J.A. Ademola / Health Research Policy and Systems, 2004
- This study published in BMC Public Health describes current knowledge of AIDS, and HIV-risk sexual behaviour of naval personnel in Lagos, Nigeria. Personnel in the military are at increased risk of HI...
- A contingent valuation study to estimate the parental willingness-to-pay for childhood diarrhoea and gender bias among rural households in India
- M. Amin; F. Khondoker / Health Research Policy and Systems, 2004
- This article, published in Health Research Policy and Systems by BioMed Central, reports on a study conducted in rural India, which estimated parental willingness to pay for treatment of childhood dia...
- Unintended pregnancy and induced abortion among unmarried women in China: a systematic review
- X. Qian; S. Tang; P. Garner / Health Research Policy and Systems, 2004
- Published in Health Services Research by BioMed Central, this article reports on research into pregnancy and induced abortion among unmarried women in China. The focus of the research was on unmet co...
