List of tools

Development of AMSTAR: a measurement tool to assess the methodological quality of systematic reviews

Our objective was to develop an instrument to assess the methodological quality of systematic reviews, building upon previous tools, empirical evidence and expert consensus.A 37-item assessment tool w...

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Evidence briefs for policy. Using the integrated knowledge translation approach. Guiding manual

Evidence Briefs for Policy (EBPs) are a relatively new, innovative approach to packaging research evidence for policy-makers; however, they are already the most widely used tool. EBPs are prepared by...

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    Evidence and Research for Policy-Making, Division of Information, Evidence, Research and Innovation, WHO Regional Office for Europe
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    22.02.2023
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    WHO/EURO:2020-1740-41491-56588
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    CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO.

SURE Guides for Preparing and Using Evidence-Based Policy Briefs 3. Clarifying the problem

SURE Guide 3 is part of the SURE Guides for Preparing and Using Evidence-Based Policy Briefs. The SURE Guides are intended for those people responsible for preparing and supporting the use of policy b...

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SURE Guides for Preparing and Using Evidence-Based Policy Briefs 2. Prioritising topics for policy briefs

SURE Guide 2 is part of the SURE Guides for Preparing and Using Evidence-Based Policy Briefs. The SURE Guides are intended for those people responsible for preparing and supporting the use of policy b...

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GRADE Handbook

The GRADE handbook describes the process of rating the quality of the best available evidence and developing health care recommendations following the approach proposed by the Grading of Recommendatio...

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Evidence synthesis for health policy and systems: a methods guide

This methods Guide explores various ways to address the challenges of synthesizing evidence from HPSR including methods and tools to conduct and promote the uptake of evidence synthesis for health pol...

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    Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research
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    22.02.2023
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Communication and Advocacy Checklist: EVIPNet Europe

The aim of this document is to serve EVIPNet Europe country teams and WHO country offices as a summary of the major communication considerations associated with communicating about and advocating for...

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    Evidence and Research for Policymaking, Division of Information, Evidence, Research and Innovation, WHO Regional Office for Europe
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    22.02.2023
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Policy Dialogue Preparation and Facilitation Checklist - EVIPNet Europe

The aim of this document is to guide policy dialogue (PD) facilitators and their teams (including the WHO country office and the evidence brief for policy team) in leading a PD process that will effec...

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    Evidence and Information for Policy, Division of Information, Evidence, Research and Innovation, WHO Regional Office for Europe
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    22.02.2023
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Beginning with the end in mind: planning pilot projects and other programmatic research for successful scaling up

The Beginning with the end in mind tool offers recommendations for designing and implementing a pilot, demonstration or implementation research project with scaling up in mind. This document is based...

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Nine steps for developing a scaling-up strategy

The Nine Steps for developing a scaling-up strategy tool and associated worksheets are based on the ExpandNet framework and provide stepwise guidance to develop a sc...

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Practical guidance for scaling up health service innovations

The Practical Guidance tool identifies general scaling-up principles and provides examples from case studies of successful scale-up initiatives. It is helpful at the design stage, during implementatio...

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    World Health Organization, Department of Reproductive Health and Research
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    22.02.2023
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Applying GRADE-CERQual to qualitative evidence synthesis findings: introduction to the series

The GRADE-CERQual (‘Confidence in the Evidence from Reviews of Qualitative research’) aims to assess the degree of confidence of the findings from systematic reviews of qualitative research (or qualit...

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TDR Implementation Research Toolkit

This toolkit provides deeper learning on implementation research, helping people learn a standard process that can lead to results that can be compared across regions and countries. It is designed to...

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Implementation Research in Health: A Practical Guide

Implementation issues arise as a result of a range of factors including ‘real world’ contextual factors that are either overlooked or not captured by other research disciplines. Implementation researc...

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    Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research
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    22.02.2023
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Strengthening national evidence-informed guideline programs. A tool for adapting and implementing guidelines in the Americas

The purpose of this document is to present policy-oriented and methodological strategies for developing and/or strengthening national guideline programs, focusing on the adaptation of evidence-informe...

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SUPPORT Tools for evidence-informed Policymaking in health (STP) 11: Finding and using evidence about local conditions

This article is part of a series written for people responsible for making decisions about health policies and programmes and for those who support these decision makers.Evidence about local condition...

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SUPPORT Tools for evidence-informed health Policymaking (STP) 14: Organising and using policy dialogues to support evidence-informed policymaking

This article is part of a series written for people responsible for making decisions about health policies and programmes and for those who support these decision makers.Policy dialogues allow researc...

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SUPPORT Tools for evidence-informed health Policymaking (STP) 15: Engaging the public in evidence-informed policymaking

This article is part of a series written for people responsible for making decisions about health policies and programmes and for those who support these decision makers.In this article, we address st...

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SUPPORT Tools for Evidence-informed Policymaking in health (STP) 18: Planning monitoring and evaluation of policies

This article is part of a series written for people responsible for making decisions about health policies and programmes and for those who support these decision makers.The term monitoring is commonl...

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SUPPORT Tools for evidence-informed health Policymaking (STP) 3: Setting priorities for supporting evidence-informed policymaking

This article is part of a series written for people responsible for making decisions about health policies and programmes and for those who support these decision makers.Policymakers have limited reso...

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SUPPORT Tools for evidence-informed health Policymaking (STP) 4: Using research evidence to clarify a problem

This article is part of a series written for people responsible for making decisions about health policies and programmes and for those who support these decision makers.Policymakers and those support...

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SUPPORT Tools for Evidence-informed Policymaking in health (STP) 6: Using research evidence to address how an option will be implemented

This article is part of a series written for people responsible for making decisions about health policies and programmes and for those who support these decision makers.After a policy decision has be...

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SUPPORT Tools for evidence-informed health Policymaking (STP) 7: Finding systematic reviews

This article is part of a series written for people responsible for making decisions about health policies and programmes and for those who support these decision makers.Systematic reviews are increas...

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SUPPORT Tools for evidence-informed health Policymaking (STP) 9: Assessing the applicability of the findings of a systematic review

This article is part of a series written for people responsible for making decisions about health policies and programmes and for those who support these decision makers.This article suggests question...

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SURE Guides for Preparing and Using Evidence-Based Policy Briefs 4. Deciding on and describing policy options

SURE Guide 4 is part of the SURE Guides for Preparing and Using Evidence-Based Policy Briefs. The SURE Guides are intended for those people responsible for preparing and supporting the use of policy b...

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SURE Guides for Preparing and Using Evidence-Based Policy Briefs 5. Identifying and addressing barriers to implementing policy options

SURE Guide 5 is part of the SURE Guides for Preparing and Using Evidence-Based Policy Briefs. The SURE Guides are intended for those people responsible for preparing and supporting the use of policy b...

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SURE Guides for Preparing and Using Evidence-Based Policy Briefs 6. Clarifying uncertainties and needs for monitoring and evaluation

SURE Guide 6 is part of the SURE Guides for Preparing and Using Evidence-Based Policy Briefs. The SURE Guides are intended for those people responsible for preparing and supporting the use of policy b...

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SURE Guides for Preparing and Using Evidence-Based Policy Briefs 7. Organising and running policy dialogues

SURE Guide 7 is part of the SURE Guides for Preparing and Using Evidence-Based Policy Briefs. The SURE Guides are intended for those people responsible for preparing and supporting the use of policy b...

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SURE Guides for Preparing and Using Evidence-Based Policy Briefs 8. Informing and engaging stakeholders

SURE Guide 8 is part of the SURE Guides for Preparing and Using Evidence-Based Policy Briefs. The SURE Guides are intended for those people responsible for preparing and supporting the use of policy b...

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WHO Evaluation Practice Handbook

The purpose of this handbook is to complement WHO’s evaluation policy and to streamline evaluation processes by providing step-by-step practical guidance to evaluation in WHO. It aims to foster the cu...

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WHO handbook for guideline development

A WHO guideline is any document developed by the World Health Organization containing recommendations for clinical practice or public health policy. A recommendation tells the intended end-user of the...

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A resource for developing an evidence synthesis report for policy-making

HEN – the Health Evidence Network – is an information service for public health decision-makers in the WHO European Region, in action since 2003 and initiated and coordinated by the WHO Regional Offic...

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    Evidence and Research for Policymaking, Division of Information, Evidence, Research and Innovation, WHO Regional Office for Europe
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    28.02.2023
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A system-wide approach to analysing efficiency across health programmes

Health programmes are able to target health interventions for specific diseases or populations, and historically, countries have relied heavily on them to deliver priority services. In low- and middle...

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    Health Financing UHL
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    22.02.2023
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AccessMod

AccessMod (version 5) is a free and open-source standalone software to model geographic accessibility to health services. The tool uses information on population location, health facility location, ge...

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    WHO/HIS/HGF, WHO/IER/KMS/EHL, WHO/FCH/MPS
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    GNU GPL V3

The Appraisal of Guidelines for Research & Evaluation Instrument II (AGREE II)

The Appraisal of Guidelines for REsearch & Evaluation (AGREE) Instrument was developed to address the issue of variability in guideline quality. To that end, the AGREE instrument is a tool that as...

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Analytical guide to assess a mixed provider payment system

In nearly all countries, several payment methods co-exist and constitute a mixed provider payment system (MPPS). Providers are paid by several payment methods and are faced with several incentives tha...

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    Health Financing UHL
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    28.02.2023
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    WHO/UHC/HGF/Guidance/19.5
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    CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO

CAPACITI decision-support tool

The Country-led Assessment for Prioritisation on Immunisation (CAPACITI) project aims to strengthen the ability of LMICs to evaluate immunisation options according to their priorities and programme co...

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    The Immunization Analysis & Insights Unit in the Department of Immunization, Vaccines and Biologicals (IVB)
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    15.03.2023
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Conceptual Background and Case Studies – Introduction to EVIPNet Europe

EVIPNet is a knowledge translation network established by WHO. EVIPNet envisions a world in which policy-makers and other stakeholders in low- and middle-income countries use the best available resear...

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    Evidence and information for Policy, Division of Information, Evidence, Research and Innovation, WHO Regional Office for Europe
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    22.02.2023
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Country cooperation strategy guide 2020: implementing the Thirteenth General Programme of Work for driving impact in every country

The Country Cooperation Strategy (CCS) is WHO’s strategic framework to guide the Organization’s work in and with a country. It responds to that country’s National Health and Development Agenda and ide...

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    28.02.2023
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    WHO/CSS/20.01.
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COVID-19 Vaccine Introduction and deployment Costing tool (‎‎‎‎CVIC tool)

The CVIC tool supports credible COVID-19 vaccination costing to facilitate a dialogue with stakeholders, while maintaining sensitivity to protect essential health services.The CVIC tool provides a str...

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    COVAX, WHO Headquarters (HQ)
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    22.02.2023
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    WHO/2019-nCoV/Vaccine_deployment_tool/2022.1
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Facilitator's guide: using research in the EVIPNet framework

This Guide provides complete instructions and materials needed to conduct a workshop in which participants are guided towards (‎i)‎ acquiring, assessing, adapting and applying evidence that is relevan...

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    Evidence and Research for Policy-Making, Division of Information, Evidence, Research and Innovation, WHO Regional Office for Europe
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    22.02.2023
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    WHO/EURO:2018-3018-42776-59687
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    CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO

Governance for strategic purchasing: An analytical framework to guide a country assessment

This document sets out an analytical framework for assessing a country’s governance arrangements for the purchasing function. The purpose of such an assessment is to assist policy-makers and policy ad...

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    Health Financing UHL
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    28.02.2023
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    WHO/UHC/HGF/Guidance/19.6
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    CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO

Guide to qualitative evidence synthesis: evidence-informed policy-making using research in the EVIPNET framework

This guide aims to support country efforts to generate evidence, including qualitative evidence. It summarizes what a qualitative evidence synthesis is, and how it can contribute to the evidence-infor...

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    Division of Country Health Policies and Systems (CPS) (previously the Division of Information, Evidence, Research and Innovation (DIR)) of the WHO Regional Office for Europe
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    28.02.2023
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    WHO/EURO:2021-2272-42027-57819
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Country assessment guide: the health financing progress matrix

The Health Financing Progress Matrix (HFPM) is a standardized approach to assessing a country’s health financing system. Primarily qualitative in nature, the HFPM considers health financing institutio...

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    Health Financing UHL
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    28.02.2023
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Health Technology Assessment Toolbox for Emerging Settings: Best Practices and Recommendations

This  toolbox  is  focused  on  the  use of health  technology  assessment (HTA) in emerging  settings.  Its  primary  audience  is&nbs...

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Lessons from the Health Evidence Network (HEN): Lessons learned about delivering an evidence synthesis service for policy-makers

HEN is an information service for public health decision-makers in the WHO European Region, in action since 2003 and initiated and coordinated by the WHO Regional Office for Europe. HEN supports publi...

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    Evidence and Research for Policymaking, Division of Information, Evidence, Research and Innovation, WHO Regional Office for Europe
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    22.02.2023
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Making GRADE the Irresistible Choice authoring and publication platform (MAGICapp)

MAGIC (Making GRADE the Irresistible Choice) is a non-profit foundation with the goal of increasing value and reducing waste in healthcare through a digital and trustworthy evidence ecosystem. MAGICap...

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OneHealth Tool

The OneHealth Tool is a software tool designed to inform national and subnational strategic health planning in low- and middle-income countries.While many costing tools take a narrow disease-specific...

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    WHO-CHOICE Team, Economic Evaluation and Analysis, Department of Health systems Governance and Financing
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    15.03.2023
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Options for best practice clinical guideline development in Ukraine: policy brief

This policy brief summarizes the results of this study and describes best practice structures, processes and methods for guideline development in Ukraine. Key messages include the requirement for inve...

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    Health Policy Development, Division of Country Policies and Systems of the WHO Regional Office for Europe; Quality, Norms and Standards, Science Division of WHO Headquarters
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    22.02.2023
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    WHO/EURO:2021-2587-42343-58625
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Rapid reviews to strengthen health policy and systems: a practical guide

Policy-makers require valid evidence to support time-sensitive decisions regarding the coverage, quality, efficiency, and equity of health systems. Systematic reviews and other types of evidence synth...

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    Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research
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    15.10.2024
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    ISBN: 9789241512763
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SCORE for Health Data Technical Package

The SCORE for Health Data Technical Package has been developed by WHO and partners to assist Member States in strengthening country data systems and capacities to monitor and track progress towards th...

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    WHO Division of Data, Analytics and Delivery for Impact (DDI)
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    15.03.2023
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EVIPNet Europe: Situation Analysis Manual

The World Health Organization (WHO)’s Evidence-informed Policy Network (EVIPNet) has supported Member States in designing, implementing and institutionalizing efforts to support evidence-informed poli...

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    Evidence and Information for Policy. Division of Information, Evidence, Research and Innovation, WHO Regional Office for Europe
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    28.02.2023
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Sound Choices: Enhancing capacity for evidence-informed health policy

This Guide addresses a mismatch between what is known about how to respond to particular health problems in poor economies and what is actually done about them. It focuses on one cause of the problems...

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    Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research
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    22.02.2023
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SUPPORT Tools for evidence-informed health Policymaking (STP) 1: What is evidence-informed policymaking?

This article is part of a series written for people responsible for making decisions about health policies and programmes and for those who support these decision makers.In this article, the following...

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SUPPORT Tools for evidence-informed health Policymaking (STP) 2: Improving how your organisation supports the use of research evidence to inform policymaking

This article is part of a series written for people responsible for making decisions about health policies and programmes and for those who support these decision makers.In this article, ways of organ...

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SUPPORT Tools for evidence-informed health Policymaking (STP) 5: Using research evidence to frame options to address a problem

This article is part of a series written for people responsible for making decisions about health policies and programmes and for those who support these decision makers.Policymakers and those support...

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SUPPORT Tools for evidence-informed health Policymaking (STP) 8: Deciding how much confidence to place in a systematic review

This article is part of a series written for people responsible for making decisions about health policies and programmes and for those who support these decision makers.The reliability of systematic...

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SUPPORT Tools for evidence-informed health Policymaking (STP) 10: Taking equity into consideration when assessing the findings of a systematic review

This article is part of a series written for people responsible for making decisions about health policies and programmes and for those who support these decision makers.This article addresses conside...

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

This article is part of a series written for people responsible for making decisions about health policies and programmes and for those who support these decision makers.Policy briefs are a relatively...

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SUPPORT Tools for evidence-informed health Policymaking (STP) 16: Using research evidence in balancing the pros and cons of policies

This article is part of a series written for people responsible for making decisions about health policies and programmes and for those who support these decision makers.In this article, the use of ev...

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SUPPORT Tools for evidence-informed health Policymaking (STP) 17: Dealing with insufficient research evidence

This article is part of a series written for people responsible for making decisions about health policies and programmes and for those who support these decision makers.In this article, the issue of...

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SURE Guides for Preparing and Using Evidence-Based Policy Briefs 1. Getting started

SURE Guide 1 is part of the SURE Guides for Preparing and Using Evidence-Based Policy Briefs. The SURE Guides are intended for those people responsible for preparing and supporting the use of policy b...

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The WHO-INTEGRATE evidence to decision framework version 1.0: integrating WHO norms and values and a complexity perspective

Evidence-to-decision (EtD) frameworks intend to ensure that all criteria of relevance to a health decision are systematically considered. This paper, part of a series commissioned by the WHO, reports...

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Tobacco product regulation: basic handbook

WHO has launched a handbook on tobacco product regulation in response to the need for clear, practical guidance on tobacco product regulation.Although tobacco product use is a major public health prob...

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    No Tobacco Unit (TFI), WHO Study Group on Tobacco Product Regulation
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    28.02.2023
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    ISBN: 978-92-4-151448-4
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Selection of essential medicines at country level: Using the WHO model list of essential medicines to update a national essential medicines list

Since 1977, WHO has been working with countries to design the package of essential medicines as an integral component of treatment within the continuum of care, developing and disseminating the Model...

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    Medicines Selection, IP and Affordability, WHO Headquarters (HQ)
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    28.02.2023
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Evidence, policy, impact: WHO guide for evidence-informed decision-making

This document is meant to provide guidance to all staff of the World Health Organization (WHO), of Member States and in partner organizations who need to create, commission, fund, broker or apply evid...

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    WHO HQ/Research for Health Department/Science Division
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    22.02.2023
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A Guide for Evidence-Informed Decision-Making, Including in Health Emergencies

­This guide aims to bring together the most recent thinking in the EIDM field and to present this in a format that is accessible to a wide audience of EIDM practitioners. It builds on, and contextuali...

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    22.02.2023
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    PAHO/EIH/KT/COVID-19/21-038
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SUPPORT Tools for evidence-informed health Policymaking (STP) 12: Finding and using research evidence about resource use and costs

This article is part of a series written for people responsible for making decisions about health policies and programmes and for those who support these decision makers.This article addresses conside...

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    22.02.2023
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Estonian Handbook for Guidelines Development

Clinical practice guidelines are generally accepted as an important tool for improving the quality of clinical care provided by health professionals, as well providing guidance to ensure the quality u...

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    WHO Country Office in Estonia, WHO Regional Office in Europe
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    22.02.2023
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AMSTAR 2: a critical appraisal tool for systematic reviews that include randomised or non-randomised studies of healthcare interventions, or both

The number of published systematic reviews of studies of healthcare interventions has increased rapidly and these are used extensively for clinical and policy decisions. Systematic reviews are subject...

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Behavioural and social drivers of vaccination: tools and practical guidance for achieving high uptake

Understanding how people think, feel and act in relation to vaccination is vital to informing the development of strategies to generate acceptance and uptake for the vaccines. Generating and using dat...

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    Demand and Behavioural Science Team, WHO headquarters
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    22.02.2023
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Systems Thinking for Health Systems Strengthening

In the previous decades, little was understood about what works in health systems strengthening and how researchers and policymakers can apply it. So, although there was general agreement for the need...

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    Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research
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    28.02.2023
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WHO Cervical Cancer Prevention and Control Costing (C4P) Tool

The Department of Immunization, Vaccines and Biologicals (IVB) in WHO has developed a generic costing and planning tool for cervical cancer prevention and control. The WHO Cervical Cancer Prevention a...

  • WHO Team
    Department of Immunization, Vaccines and Biologicals (IVB)
  • Update
    15.03.2023
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Institutionalizing health technology assessment mechanisms: a how to guide

As countries face financing constraints in achieving their universal health coverage goals, they must ensure that available resources are spent more efficiently. The institutionalization of healt...

  • WHO Team
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  • Update
    28.02.2023
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    CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO

SPECTRUM Generalized Cost-Effectiveness Analysis

SPECTRUM Generalized Cost-Effectiveness Analysis (GCEA) is a tool developed to facilitate country-level cost-effectiveness analysis of a wide range of health interventions. The tool is populated with...

  • WHO Team
    WHO CHOICE Team, Economic Evaluation and Analysis, Department of Health systems Governance and Financing
  • Update
    16.03.2023
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Policy in action: a tool for measuring alcohol policy implementation

Europe has the highest alcohol consumption and alcohol-attributable disease burden in the world. In 2011, all 53 Member States of the WHO European Region endorsed the European action plan to reduce th...

  • WHO Team
    WHO European Office for Prevention and Control of Non-Communicable Diseases
  • Update
    25.06.2024
  • Reference
    9789289056700 (ISBN)
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Preventing child maltreatment: a guide to taking action and generating evidence

The main aim of this guide is to provide technical advice for setting up policies and programmes for child maltreatment prevention and victim services that take into full account existing evidence on...

  • WHO Team
    Violence Prevention Unit, Department for the Social Determinants of Health
  • Update
    25.06.2024
  • Reference
    ISBN 9241594365, 9789241594363
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Tools for making good data visualizations: the art of charting

Data visualization is a collection of methods that use visual representations to explore, make sense of and communicate quantitative data. It allows trends and patterns in quantitative data to be seen...

  • WHO Team
    Data, Metrics and Analytics Unit, Country Health Policies and Systems of the WHO Regional Office for Europe
  • Update
    25.06.2024
  • Reference
    WHO/EURO:2021-1998-41753-57181
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    CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO

Systems thinking for noncommunicable disease prevention policy: guidance to bring systems approaches into practice

Systems thinking is a comparatively novel but rapidly developing area of knowledge that can offer a number of approaches to address complex public health problems such as the prevention of noncommunic...

  • WHO Team
    Office for Prevention & Control of NCDs (MOS)
  • Update
    25.06.2024
  • Reference
    WHO-EURO-2022-4195-43954-61946
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    CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO

Climate change and health: a tool to estimate health and adaptation costs

Adaptation is one of the approaches to prevent or reduce some of the effects caused by climate change, including health effects. To support ministries planning for climate change adaptation measures,...

  • WHO Team
    Centre for Environment & Health (BON), Water & Climate (WAC)
  • Update
    25.06.2024
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    ISBN: 9789289000239
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How to implement influenza vaccination of pregnant women: An introduction manual for national immunization programme managers and policy makers

This manual serves as a primary resource and a catalogue of optional tools to help users to decide, plan and implement maternal influenza vaccination strategies and to foresee and address potential ch...

  • WHO Team
    Initiative for Vaccine Research (IVR) of the Department of Immunization, Vaccines and Biologicals
  • Update
    25.06.2024
  • Reference
    WHO/IVB/16.06
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A guide to implementation research in the prevention and control of noncommunicable diseases

The main purpose of this guide is to provide practical guidance, tools and examples for implementation research so as to support effective implementation of NCD policy options and cost-effective inter...

  • WHO Team
    Department for the Management of Noncommunicable Diseases, Disability, Violence and Injury Prevention
  • Update
    02.07.2024
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    ISBN: 9789241511803
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    CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO

Analysing and using routine data to monitor the effects of COVID-19 on essential health services: practical guide for national and subnational decision-makers: interim guidance, 14 January 2021

The objective of this guide is to help countries monitor and analyse the impact of COVID-19 on essential health services to ultimately inform planning and decision-making. It provides practical recomm...

  • WHO Team
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  • Update
    02.07.2024
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    WHO/2019-nCoV/essential_health_services/monitoring/2021.1
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    CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO

Costing tool for estimating the cost of interventions to improve hand hygiene in domestic settings

A critical building block to achieving the global goal of universal hand hygiene by 2030 is adequate levels of funding. Understanding the costs of implementing hand hygiene plans is an essential precu...

  • WHO Team
    WHO HQ/HEP/ECH/WSH
  • Update
    02.07.2024
  • Reference
    WHO/HEP/ECH/WSH/2021.3
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    CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO

Step-by-step guide to conducting a cross-programmatic efficiency analysis

The World Health Organization (WHO) has developed a diagnostic approach to enable countries to look across health programmes that are part of their health system to detect “cross-programmatic” ineffic...

  • WHO Team
    WHO Health Financing Team
  • Update
    02.07.2024
  • Reference
    ISBN: 9789240044982
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    CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO

Guidance on an adapted evidence to recommendation process for National Immunization Technical Advisory Groups

This guidance describes a systematic approach called the “Evidence to Recommendation Process” (‎henceforth called “EtRProcess”)‎ for use by national immunization technical advisory groups (‎NITAGs)‎....

  • WHO Team
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  • Update
    02.07.2024
  • Reference
    WHO/EURO:2022-5497-45262-64756
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    CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO

E4As guide for advancing health and sustainable development: resources and tools for policy development and implementation

Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (‎SDGs)‎ requires working in transformative ways. This guide is a compilation of tools and resources for advancing health and sustainable development in cou...

  • WHO Team
    Policy and governance for health & WHO Venice Office for Investment for Health
  • Update
    07.07.2024
  • Reference
    9789289055772 (ISBN)
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    CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO

National Immunization Strategy costing application (NIS.COST)

During the past two decades, the comprehensive multi-year planning (cMYP) process has been the cornerstone of strategic planning for immunization as part of the Global Vaccine Action Plan (2011-2020)....

  • WHO Team
    Department of Immunization, Vaccines and Biologicals
  • Update
    16.07.2024
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Support tool to strengthen health information systems: guidance for health information system assessment and strategy development

This tool is an update of the 2015 Support tool to assess health information systems and develop and strengthen health information strategies. Both the global General Programme of Work and the Europea...

  • WHO Team
    Data, Metrics and Analytics Unit in the Division of Country Health Policies and Systems of the WHO Regional Office for Europe
  • Update
    16.07.2024
  • Reference
    ISBN: 978-92-890-5574-1
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    CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO

Helmets: a road safety manual for decision-makers and practitioners, 2nd edition

Safe, quality helmets reduce the risk of death in a road crash by over six times, and reduce the risk of brain injury by up to 74%. Head trauma is the leading cause of death for riders, and motorcycle...

  • WHO Team
    HQ/Department of the Social Determinants of Health/Safety and Mobility
  • Update
    16.07.2024
  • Reference
    ISBN: 978-92-4-006982-4
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    CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO

Climate change mitigation, air quality and health (‎CLIMAQ-H) tool

The Climate change mitigation, air quality and health (CLIMAQ-H) calculation tool allows quantification of the physical and economic consequences for human health achieved through improvements in coun...

  • WHO Team
    Centre for Environment & Health (BON), Living & Working Environments (LWE), Water & Climate (WAC)
  • Update
    16.07.2024
  • Reference
    ISBN: 9789289060196
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    CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO

A strategic approach to strengthening control of reproductive tract and sexually transmitted infections: use of the programme guidance tool

The Programme Guidance Tool (PGT) facilitates an action-oriented process that can be used by decision-makers to set goals and directions and to prioritize interventions for addressing the problem of r...

  • WHO Team
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  • Update
    16.07.2024
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    ISBN: 9789241598569
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The project has ended but we can still learn from it! Practical guidance for conducting post-project evaluations of adolescent sexual and reproductive health projects

Many adolescent sexual and reproductive health (ASRH) projects encounter and address policy and programmatic challenges, and in doing so, learn valuable lessons. Since careful documentation and rigoro...

  • WHO Team
    WHO Department of Reproductive Health and Research
  • Update
    10.09.2024
  • Reference
    ISBN: 9789241516563
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    CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO

Prioritizing areas for action in the field of population-based prevention of childhood obesity: a set of tools for Member States to determine and identify priority areas for action

The purpose of this document is to provide a set of tools for Member States to determine and identify priority areas for action in the field of population-based prevention of childhood obesity. The to...

  • WHO Team
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  • Update
    10.09.2024
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    ISBN: 9789241503273
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    n/a

Assessing financing, education, management and policy context for strategic planning of human resources for health

This document contains a method for assessing the financial, educational and management systems and policy context, essential for strategic planning and policy development for human resources for heal...

  • WHO Team
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  • Update
    10.09.2024
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    ISBN: 9789241547314
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    n/a

Developing national action plans on transport, health and environment: a step-by-step manual for policy-makers and planners

A national transport, health and environment action plan (‎NTHEAP)‎ is a key tool and mechanism for developing sustainable and healthy transport in a country. NTHEAPs provide a comprehensive and inter...

  • WHO Team
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  • Update
    30.07.2024
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    ISBN: 9789289050210
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Implementing citizen engagement within evidence-informed policy-making: an overview of purpose and methods

This overview provides a fundamental understanding of citizen engagement (CE) and its relevance to the evidence-informed policy (EIP) work of the World Health Organization (WHO) and its Member States....

  • WHO Team
    Evidence to Policy and Impact Unit, Research for Health Department, Science Division
  • Update
    10.09.2024
  • Reference
    ISBN: 978-92-4-006152-1
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    CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO

Supporting the routine use of evidence during the policy-making process: a WHO checklist

This WHO checklist is for any organization or person supporting the routine use of evidence in the process of policy-making.  This checklist was developed by the WHO Secretariat of Evidence-Infor...

  • WHO Team
    Evidence to Policy and Impact Unit, Research for Health Department, Science Division; EVIPNet
  • Update
    10.09.2024
  • Reference
    ISBN: 978-92-4-005614-5
  • Copyright
    CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO

Guidelines for estimating the economic burden of diarrhoeal disease, with focus on assessing the costs of rotavirus diarrhoea

The objective of these guidelines is to present a method for determining the costs associated with diarrhoeal disease in children under five years of age. Methods for estimating the costs from the vie...

  • WHO Team
    Vaccine Assessment and Monitoring Team of the Department of Immunization, Vaccines and Biologicals
  • Update
    10.09.2024
  • Reference
    WHO/IVB/05.10
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