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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...