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Thursday, January 28, 2010

Tools for evidence-based health policy making

"SUPPORT Tools for evidence-informed health Policymaking (STP)", a series of 19 guides for evidence-informed health policy making, were published recently on open access in Health Research Policy and Systems. This is relevant to anyone who uses research evidence to inform policymaking, and specifically to people responsible for making decisions about health policies and programmes.

The series addresses four areas: 1. Supporting evidence-informed policymaking 2. Identifying needs for research evidence in relation to three steps in policymaking processes, namely problem clarification, options framing, and implementation planning 3. Finding and assessing both systematic reviews and other types of evidence to inform these steps, and 4. Going from research evidence to decisions.

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