Theories of policy process recognise that policy implementation is as important as, if not more important than, policy design in determining the impact a policy has in practice. Unfortunately, policy-makers often do not pay adequate attention to implementation, considering it the responsibility of others, such as managers, and assuming that implementation is simply ‘a matter of carrying out tha...

BACKGROUND Many of society's health problems require research-based knowledge acted on by healthcare practitioners together with implementation of political measures from governmental agencies. However, there has been limited knowledge exchange between implementation science and policy implementation research, which has been conducted since the early 1970s. Based on a narrative review of select...

this study aimed to develop indicators for evaluating the implementation of the framework convention on tobacco control (fctc) in iran. we used the “grounded theory” framework. totally, 265 policy-makers, stakeholders, and community members were recruited by purposeful sampling in 2008. after analyzing the gathered data, 251 indicators, including 82 indicators as “applied indicators”, were deri...

BACKGROUND Evidence has come to play a central role in health policymaking. However, policymakers tend to use other types of information besides research evidence. Most prior studies on evidence-informed policy have focused on the policy formulation phase without a systematic analysis of its implementation. It has been suggested that in order to fully understand the policy process, the analysis...

background: in this regard, in iran a plan was developed and accordingly 52 indicators to measure equity inhealth were developed and announced by the ministry of health in collaboration with other sectors.this study aims to obtain a deeper understanding of the development of health equity indicators andidentify their implementation challenges and proposed solutions from the perspective of polic...