Background The inclusion of cost-effectiveness data, as a basis for priority setting rankings, is a distinguishing feature in the formulation of the Swedish national guidelines. Guidelines are generated with the direct intent to influence health policy and support decisions about the efficient allocation of scarce healthcare resources. Certain medical conditions may be given higher priority ran...

BACKGROUND For health technology assessment (HTA) to be more policy relevant and for health technology-related decision-making to be truly evidence-based, promoting knowledge translation (KT) is of vital importance. Although some research has focused on KT of HTA, there is a dearth of literature on KT determinants and the situation in developing countries and transitional societies remains larg...

integrated urban management means adopting a holistic approach to urban management and designing appropriate mechanisms for this approach’s requirements in practice. the integration of the urban activities brings together organizational , structural and institutional activities and action in which the urban development is supported. in order to achieve integration, it is essential to identify f...

social health is important to be assessed as a dimension of health. the aim of study was to determine domains and sub-domains of individual social health of iranians.this study was carried out with a qualitative approach, using thematic content analysis. twenty five experts participated in interviews, using individual semi-structured interviews between november 2010 and june 2011.this data supp...

information plays a vital role in effective management of any system. with the health management information system (hmis) specific information may be provide to support o the decision makers at various levels of the health system to assist evidence-based decision making. pharmaceutical distributor companies have reported their sales data to moh at monthly intervals. each company should report ...

The UK Government’s renewed emphasis on evidence-based policy making (EBP) is held to reflect a less ideological, more pragmatic ‘third way’ to developing and implementing economic and social policies. The new mantra – ‘what matters is what works’ – signals a resurgence of traditional notions of rationality in policy making. It implies a central role for social research and evaluation in develo...

Recent interest in “evidence-based policy-making” is a response to the perception that governments need to improve the quality of their decisionmaking in view of rapid changes and scarce resources.1 Creating better policies means using the best available evidence and not merely that which is the most easily accessible. In a world of information overload, there is a large amount of information t...