2018
DOI: 10.1186/s12961-018-0359-0
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Health policy and systems research: the future of the field

Abstract: Health policy and systems research (HPSR) has changed considerably over the last 20 years, but its main purpose remains to inform and influence health policies and systems. Whereas goals that underpin health systems have endured – such as a focus on health equity – contexts and priorities change, research methods progress, and health organisations continue to learn and adapt, in part by using HPSR. For HPSR to remain relevant, its practitioners need to re-think how health systems are conceptualised, to keep up… Show more

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“…For building the HPSSR filter, we first relied on working definitions and conceptual papers within the HPSSR arena [13,[15][16][17][18][19][20]23,24]. Then, the key concepts extracted were translated into MeSH terms, using target and snowballing searches in the MeSH database [52].…”
Section: Hpssrmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…For building the HPSSR filter, we first relied on working definitions and conceptual papers within the HPSSR arena [13,[15][16][17][18][19][20]23,24]. Then, the key concepts extracted were translated into MeSH terms, using target and snowballing searches in the MeSH database [52].…”
Section: Hpssrmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…It does it so as an inter-disciplinary field that seeks to understand and find solutions as to how: (1) societies and stakeholders organize themselves to achieve collective health goals; (2) health systems respond and adapt to health policies, and (3) health policies can shape and are shaped by health systems and broader determinants of health [15,17]. Health policy and systems research address any, and often multiple, 'building blocks' of health systems (e.g., governance, workforce, financing), within a systems-thinking approach toward promoting the coverage, quality, efficiency and equity of health systems [15,[18][19][20][21]. At the service-delivery level, and with increasing convergence with a broader health systems research [16,19,22], health services research refers to a multidisciplinary field of investigation on how social factors, financing, organizations, technologies, innovation, and personal behaviors affect the access to healthcare, its quality, and its cost [23,24].…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…This study is set within the framework of health policy and systems research [12]. Our aim was to compare the original policy guidelines to the policies adopted in each study site and then to explore how those policies were implemented in the context of the existing health systems.…”
Section: Data Sourcesmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Successful implementation may be challenged when the intervention is not experienced as relevant, workable or feasible. Implementation is still a somewhat neglected field of research, but it may maximize the impact of an intervention, or at least provide explanations for low efficacy [ 17 ]. Hence, in this review, we aim to emphasize the importance of implementation research when investigating complex interventions like ACP.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%