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...

  • WHO Team
    Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research
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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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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
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    ISBN: 978-92-4-006982-4
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    CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO

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...

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    17.04.2025
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    ISBN: 9789289050210
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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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    CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO

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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    22.02.2023
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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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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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    15.03.2023
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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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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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    22.02.2023
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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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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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    CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO
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