Systematic review and policy dialogue to determine challenges in evidence-informed health policy-making: findings of the SASHA study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Various interventions have been undertaken in Iran to promote evidence-informed health policy-making (EIHP). Identifying the challenges in EIHP is the first step toward strengthening EIHP in each country through the design of tailored interventions. Therefore, the current study was conducted to synthesize the results of earlier studies and to finalize the list of barriers to EIHP in Iran.

Methods

To identify the barriers to EIHP in Iran, two steps were taken: a systematic review and policy dialogue. To conduct the systematic review, three Iranian databases and PubMed, Health Systems Evidence (HSE), Embase, and Scopus were searched. The reference lists of included papers and documentation from some local organizations were hand-searched. Upon conducting the systema

SUBMITTER: Yazdizadeh B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8097912 | biostudies-literature | 2021 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature