Browsing by Author "Lavis, John N."

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    Alma-Ata: Rebirth and revision 2 - Supporting the delivery of cost-effective interventions in primary health-care systems in low-income and middle-income countries: an overview of systematic reviews
    (ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC, 2008) Lewin, Simon; Lavis, John N.; Oxman, Andrew D.; Bastias, Gabriel; Chopra, Mickey; Ciapponi, Agustin; Flottorp, Signe; Garcia Marti, Sebastian; Pantoja, Tomas; Rada, Gabriel; Souza, Nathan; Treweek, Shaun; Wiysonge, Charles S.; Haines, Andy
    Strengthening health systems is a key challenge to improving the delivery of cost-effective interventions in primary health care and achieving the vision of the Alma-Ata Declaration. Effective governance, financial and delivery arrangements within health systems, and effective implementation strategies are needed urgently in low-income and middle-income countries. This overview summarises the evidence from systematic reviews of health systems arrangements and implementation strategies, with a particular focus on evidence relevant to primary health care in such settings. Although evidence is sparse, there are several promising health systems arrangements and implementation strategies for strengthening primary health care. However, their introduction must be accompanied by rigorous evaluations. The evidence base needs urgently to be strengthened, synthesised, and taken into account in policy and practice, particularly for the benefit of those who have been excluded from the health care advances of recent decades.
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    Climate for evidence-informed health systems: A print media analysis in 44 low- and middle-income countries that host knowledge-translation platforms
    (2011) Cheung, Andrew; Lavis, John N.; Hamandi, Ali; El-Jardali, Fadi; Sachs, Jonathan; Sewankambo, Nelson
    Background: We conducted a print media analysis in 44 countries in Africa, the Americas, Asia, and the Eastern Mediterranean in order to understand one dimension of the climate for evidence-informed health systems and to provide a baseline for an evaluation of knowledge-translation platforms. Our focus was whether and how policymakers, stakeholders, and researchers talk in the media about three topics: policy priorities in the health sector, health research evidence, and policy dialogues regarding health issues.
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    Evidence briefs and deliberative dialogues : Perceptions and intentions to act on what was learnt
    (2014) Moat, Kaelan A.; Lavis, John N.; Clancy, Sarah J.; El-Jardali, Fadi; Pantoja Calderón, Tomás