Brown, Elizabeth A. White, Brandi M. Jones, Walter J. Gebregziabher, Mulugeta Simpson, Kit N.
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Health Research Policy and Systems
BackgroundThe Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010, commonly referred to as the Affordable Care Act (ACA), was created to increase access to primary care, improve quality of care, and decrease healthcare costs. A key provision in the law that mandated expansion of state Medicaid programme changed when states were given the option to v...
Wolbring, Laura Reimers, Anne Kerstin Niessner, Claudia Demetriou, Yolanda Schmidt, Steffen Christian Ekkehard Woll, Alexander Wäsche, Hagen
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Health Research Policy and Systems
BackgroundPhysical activity recommendations are reached by only a small part of the population. A common problem is that research findings on public health-related topics such as physical activity promotion are oftentimes not translated into practice. The involvement of relevant stakeholders, such as change agents (role models, decision-makers, and...
McNiven, A. Boulton, M. Locock, L. Hinton, L.
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Health Research Policy and Systems
BackgroundResearch nurses, midwives and allied health professionals are members of an important emergent profession delivering clinical research and, in the United Kingdom, have been the focus of considerable investment by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR). This paper considers the experiences of research nurses, midwives and allied...
Yasobant, Sandul Bruchhausen, Walter Saxena, Deepak Falkenberg, Timo
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Health Research Policy and Systems
BackgroundOne Health is a collaborative, multisectoral, and transdisciplinary approach—working at the local, regional, national, and global levels—with the goal of achieving optimal health outcomes recognizing the interconnection between people, animals, plants, and their shared environment. Operationalization of the One Health approach is still un...
Yazdizadeh, Bahareh Sajadi, Haniye Sadat Mohtasham, Farideh Mohseni, Mahsa Majdzadeh, Reza
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Health Research Policy and Systems
BackgroundVarious interventions have been undertaken in Iran to promote evidence-informed health policy-making (EIHP). Identifying the challenges in EIHP is the first step toward strengthening EIHP in each country through the design of tailored interventions. Therefore, the current study was conducted to synthesize the results of earlier studies an...
Mhazo, Alison T. Maponga, Charles C.
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Health Research Policy and Systems
BackgroundLack of access to essential medicines presents a significant threat to achieving universal health coverage (UHC) in sub-Saharan Africa. Although it is acknowledged that essential medicines policies do not rise and stay on the policy agenda solely through rational deliberation and consideration of technical merits, policy theory is rarely ...
Almazrou, Saja H. Alaujan, Shiekha S. Al-Aqeel, Sinaa A.
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Health Research Policy and Systems
BackgroundThe number of published economic evaluations of Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries is notably scarce. Limited local evidence could have a major impact on the implementation of economic evaluation recommendations in the decision-making process in GCC countries. Little is known about the factors affecting researchers who seek to condu...
Sales, Reneepearl Kim Oraño, Joseph Estanislao, Rafael Deo Ballesteros, Alfredo Jose Gomez, Ma. Ida Faye
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Health Research Policy and Systems
BackgroundViral pandemics have had catastrophic consequences on population health and economies. The Philippine government intends to establish the Virology Institute of the Philippines, one of the key areas of which will be virology research. This project aimed to develop the institute’s research agenda across the fields of human, plant, and anima...
Ammerdorffer, Anne Laws, Mark Awiligwe, Arinze Erb, Florence Im-Amornphong, Wallada Gülmezoglu, A. Metin Chinery, Lester Lucido, Briana Narasimhan, Manjulaa
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Health Research Policy and Systems
The World Health Organization 2019 WHO consolidated guideline on self-care interventions for health: sexual and reproductive health and rights includes recommendations on self-administration of injectable contraception, over-the-counter (OTC) oral contraception and self-management of medical abortion. A review of the regulatory status of these two ...
Abou-Taleb, Hala Mohamed, Nada Gholbzouri, Karima Scolaro, Elisa Ezzeddine, Inaya Alouini, Souhail Hagrass, Heba Morshed, Magdy Datta, Neil
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Health Research Policy and Systems
Innovative people-centered care modalities including self-care interventions offer an opportunity to ensure continuity of healthcare services during COVID-19 and in post-COVID-19, as well as contribute to the achievement of universal health coverage. Parliamentarians are uniquely positioned to promote self-care interventions for sexual and reproduc...
