World Report on Health Policy and Systems Research

Historically, biomedical and clinical research dominated the health arena. There was little focus on systems and policy research. Over the past 20 years, more stakeholders have recognized the potential of this research to enhance the performance of health systems. From 1990 to 2015, there has been a five-fold surge in the number of HPSR publications produced annually. Increasingly, these are being generated by authors in low-and-middle-income countries (LMICs). The report describes the evolution of the field and provides figures on the number of publications produced, funding trends and institutional capacity in LMICs to conduct HPSR. It provides insight into how the multidisciplinary and systems approach used in HPSR can help countries advance the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) agenda.

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World report on health policy and systems research. Geneva: World Health Organization; 2017. Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO