List of tools

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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    22.02.2023
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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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    CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO

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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    22.02.2023
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    CC BY 2.0

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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    22.02.2023
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    CC BY 2.0

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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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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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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    22.02.2023
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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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    22.02.2023
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    CC BY 2.0

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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    22.02.2023
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    CC BY 2.0

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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    22.02.2023
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    CC BY 2.0

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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    22.02.2023
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    CC BY 2.0

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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    22.02.2023
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    CC BY 2.0

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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    22.02.2023
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    CC BY 2.0

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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    22.02.2023
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    CC BY 2.0

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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    CC BY 2.0

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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    22.02.2023
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    CC BY 2.0

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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    22.02.2023
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    CC BY 2.0

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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    22.02.2023
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    CC BY 2.0

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...

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    WHO CHOICE Team, Economic Evaluation and Analysis, Department of Health systems Governance and Financing
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    16.03.2023
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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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    22.02.2023
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    CC BY 2.0

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...

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