Development of measurable indicators to enhance public health evidence-informed policy-making.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Ensuring health policies are informed by evidence still remains a challenge despite efforts devoted to this aim. Several tools and approaches aimed at fostering evidence-informed policy-making (EIPM) have been developed, yet there is a lack of availability of indicators specifically devoted to assess and support EIPM. The present study aims to overcome this by building a set of measurable indicators for EIPM intended to infer if and to what extent health-related policies are, or are expected to be, evidence-informed for the purposes of policy planning as well as formative and summative evaluations.

Methods

The indicators for EIPM were developed and validated at international level by means of a two-round internet-based Delphi study conducted within the European pr

SUBMITTER: Tudisca V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5984390 | biostudies-literature | 2018 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature