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PAHO is routinely screening the wealth of information available in the web and selecting the most relevant information as a service to policy decision makers, health workers, practitioners, community workers and civil society involved in research for health. A selection of resources is presented below as a tool to help stakeholders striving to strengthen national health research systems and research governance. We invite you to browse at your convenience through books, articles, e-journals, courses and workshops, and other websites.
Last Updated on Tuesday, 10 April 2012 17:54
Evipnet documents, tools, other resources, and glossaries
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- Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health
- Centre for Translational Research in Public Health
A UKCRC Public Health Research Centre of Excellence
- Cochrane Library:
A unique source of reliable and up-to-date information on the effects of interventions in health care. Health care in the 21st century relies not only on individual medical skills, but also on the best information on the effectiveness of each intervention being accessible to practitioners, patients and policy makers.
- Dare
Published by the Centre for Reviews and Dissemination. There is an ever growing evidence base relating to the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of health care interventions, but for clinicians and decision-makers this literature can be difficult and time consuming to identify and appraise. These these databases provide access to: 21,000 systematic reviews, 11,000 economic evaluations. 10,000 health technology assessments.
- Health Evidence Canada
- Integrated Health Care for People with Chronic Conditions
Oxman AD, Bjørndal A, Flottorp S, Lewin S. Lindahl AK
- Knowledge Translation in Low & Middle-Income Countries: A Learning Module
Prepared by The Canadian Coalition for Global Health Research
in partnership with the Knowledge Translation Branch and Canadian Institutes of Health Research - Mac Master Forum.
For concerned citizens and influential thinkers and doers, the McMaster Health Forum strives to be a world-leading hub for improving health outcomes through collective problem solving.
- Red Iberoamericana Ministerial de Aprendizaje e Investigación en Salud RIMAIS (only in Spanish)
- Research Matters Knowledge Translation Toolkit
- The Rx for Change database:
Summarizes current research evidence about the effects of strategies to improve drug prescribing practice and drug use. This database houses summaries of key findings from systematic reviews that evaluate the effects of strategies targeting professionals, the organization of health care, and consumers. Initially published on-line in April 2007 and updated in April 2009 and October 2009. For information about the methods, see Methods for Development.
- Canadian Best Practices Portal
- European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies
- Global Forum for Health Research Glossary
- Glossary of biomedcentral
- Glossary of Frequently Encountered Terms in Health Economics
- Glossary of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research KT Clearinghouse
- The Cochrane Collaboration Glossary
- WhatisKT
- AMSTAR
- Checklist EPOC group
- Effective practice/health systems in the Cochrane library
- EVIPNet Policy Briefs
- Health Evidence Network (HEN)
- Health Research Policy and Systems:
An open access, peer-reviewed, online journal that aims to provide a platform for the global research community to share their views, findings, insights and successes.
- Health Systems Evidence
- Implementation Science
An open access, peer-reviewed online journal that publishes research relevant to the scientific study of methods to promote the uptake of research findings into routine healthcare in both clinical and policy contexts.
- Policy_Brief_Example
- PubMed
Comprises more than 20 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full-text content from PubMed Central and publisher web sites.
- PubMed Clinical queries:
This page provides the following specialized PubMed searches for clinicians. Search by clinical Study Category, Systematic Reviews and Medical Genetics Searches.
- Research and Policy in Development (RAPID)
- Summaries of Cochrane reviews - Effective Practice and Organisation of Care
- SUPPORT Summaries Tools for Evidence-Informed Policy-Making
SUPPORT Summaries Tools for Evidence-Informed Policy-Making (STP): Una serie de 10 artículos escritos para personas responsible de tomar decisiones acerca de políticas y programas de salud y para aquellos que apoyan a éstos decisores. Originalmente publicados en: Health Research Policy and Systems 2009.
- SUPPORTing Policy relevant reviews and trials. Health Systems
- The Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation (GRADE)
- What is policy Brief?
- Agua y Saneamiento: Evidencias para políticas públicas con enfoque en derechos humanos y resultados en salud pública (only in Spanish)
- Chile POLICY Brief (Nov 2011)
- Diálogo Deliberativo sobre Agua y Saneamiento en Guatemala 2011 (only in Spanish)
- EVIPNet Americas Secretariat. Comment. EVIPNet Americas: informing policies with evidence
The Lancet. Vol. 372, Issue 9644, 27 September 2008, Pages 1130-1131
- EVIPNet. Proposal for Skills Building Strategy
- EVIPNet: Evidence-Informed Policy Networks
Pan American Health Organization. Progress Report. 42nd Meeting of the Advisory Committee on Health Research (ACHR). Rio de Janeiro, Brasil, 13 to 15 April 2008. (ACHR 42/2008.05)
- EVIPNet: Evidence-Informed Policy Networks. 40th Meeting of the Advisory Committee on Health Research (ACHR)
Pan American Health Organization. Montego Bay, Jamaica, 29 April to 1 May 2007 (ACHR 40/2007.06)
- EVIPNet: Evidence-Informed Policy Networks. Progress Report. 41st Meeting of the Advisory Committee on Health Research (ACHR)
Pan American Health Organization, Washington, D.C., 29 & 30 November 2007. (ACHR 41/2007.04)
- EVIPNet: translating the spirit of Mexico
Hamid M et al. The Lancet. Vol 366, Issue 9499, 19 November 2005-25 November 2005, Pages 1758-1760
- Policy briefs and deliberative dialogs. EVIPnet workshop in Santiago
- Report on Policy Dialogue. Financing Options for rare diseases in Chile
- Report: Evaluation of the Evidence Informed Policy Networks (EVIPNet). August 2010-July 2012
- Testing Treatments - Better Research for Better Healthcare - 2011
Imogen Evans, Hazel Thornton, Iain Chalmers and Paul Glasziou
British Library - second edition 2011
Aimed at both patients and professionals, Testing Treatments builds a lively and thought provoking argument for better, more reliable, more relevant research, with unbiased or ‘fair’ trials, and explains how patients can work with doctors to achieve this vital goal. - Wolrd Health Organization. World Report on Knowledge for Better Health
- Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health
Strengthening National Health Research Systems documents and Latin America Conference Reports
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- 1st. Latin American Conference on Research and Innovation for Health- 2008
- Final Report: 2nd Latin American Conference on Research and Innovation for Health
- Follow up Meeting to the 1st Latin american Conference on Research and Innovations for Health: Final Report- 2009
- Assessing equity in systematic reviews: realizing the recommendations of the Commission on Social Determinants of Health
- Chemoprophylaxis in Contacts of Patients with Cholera
- Health research in Latin America
- National health research systems in Latin America: a 14-country review
- Reunión de la Red Inter-Regional de Centros de Referencia para capacitación en cursos de planeación y evaluación efectivas de proyectos de investigación para la salud, Cali, Colombia, Abril 2010 (only in Spanish)
- Revista Médica Hondureña: Primera Conferencia Latinoamericana sobre Investigación e Innovación para la Salud, Río de Janeiro, Brasil, abril 15-18, 2008 (only in Spanish)
Search engines to retrieve Researcher’s Curriculum Vitae from Latin American and Caribbean
- Argentina - CVArg (Registro Unificado y Normalizado a nivel nacional de los Datos Curriculares del personal científico y tecnológico
- Brasil -Plataforma Lattes
- Colombia - Plataforma ScienTI
- Guatemala - Registro Nacional de Investigadores (RNI)
- Honduras - El Portal de Investigadores de Honduras (SIRIH)
- México - Buscador de personal de Ciencia y Tecnología (SIICYT)
- Paraguay.- Buscador de investigadores categorizados
- Perú. Directorio de investigadores en salud del Perú
- Uruguay. Sistema Nacional de Investigadores (CVUy)
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