Implementation research evidence uptake and use for policy-making

Health Research Policy and Systems

González Block Ángel Miguel³  Ben McCutchen⁸  Jane Kengey-Kayondo⁶  Prabal Singh⁷  Tomás Pantoja²  Ahmad Hamdi Alkhatib⁵  Tracey Pérez Koehlmoos⁴  Ulysses Panisset¹ 

[1] Coordinator, Evidence Informed Policy Network (EVIPNet), Department of Knowledge Management and Sharing, WHO, Avenue Appia 20, 1211, Geneva 27, Switzerland;Family Medicine Department, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Avenue Libertador Bernardo O’Higgins 340, Santiago, Chile;Centre for Health Systems Research Institute, Av. Universidad 655 Col. Santa María Ahuacatitlán Cuernavaca, (CP 62100), Morelos, México;Programme Head, Health & Family Planning Systems Programme, ICDDR,B, 68 ShahedTajuddin Ahmed, Sarani, Mohakhali, Dhaka, 1212, Bangladesh;Faculty of Health Sciences, McMaster University; Forum Fellow, McMaster Health Forum, 1280 Main St. West, Hamilton, ON, L8S 4L6, Canada;Strategic Alliances, Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases (TDR), WHO, 20 Avenue Appia, CH-1211, Geneva 27, Switzerland;ACCESS Health International Inc., Centre for Emerging Markets Solutions, Indian School of Business, Gachibowli, Hyderabad, 500 032, Andhra Pradesh, India;Faculty of Health Sciences, McMaster University, 1280 Main St. West, Hamilton, ON, L8S 4L6, Canada

关键词: Policy-making;    Policy;    Knowledge translation;    Implementation;    Evidence-informed policy;   

Others  :  809972
DOI  :  10.1186/1478-4505-10-20

 received in 2012-03-18, accepted in 2012-06-10,  发布年份 2012

【 摘 要 】

A major obstacle to the progress of the Millennium Development Goals has been the inability of health systems in many low- and middle-income countries to effectively implement evidence-informed interventions. This article discusses the relationships between implementation research and knowledge translation and identifies the role of implementation research in the design and execution of evidence-informed policy. After a discussion of the benefits and synergies needed to translate implementation research into action, the article discusses how implementation research can be used along the entire continuum of the use of evidence to inform policy. It provides specific examples of the use of implementation research in national level programmes by looking at the scale up of zinc for the treatment of childhood diarrhoea in Bangladesh and the scaling up of malaria treatment in Burkina Faso. A number of tested strategies to support the transfer of implementation research results into policy-making are provided to help meet the standards that are increasingly expected from evidence-informed policy-making practices.

【 授权许可】

   
2012 Panisset et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.

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