PLoS Medicine (Jan 2012)

Guidance for evidence-informed policies about health systems: rationale for and challenges of guidance development.

  • Xavier Bosch-Capblanch,
  • John N Lavis,
  • Simon Lewin,
  • Rifat Atun,
  • John-Arne Røttingen,
  • Daniel Dröschel,
  • Lise Beck,
  • Edgardo Abalos,
  • Fadi El-Jardali,
  • Lucy Gilson,
  • Sandy Oliver,
  • Kaspar Wyss,
  • Peter Tugwell,
  • Regina Kulier,
  • Tikki Pang,
  • Andy Haines

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001185
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 3
p. e1001185

Abstract

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In the first paper in a three-part series on health systems guidance, Xavier Bosch-Capblanch and colleagues examine how guidance is currently formulated in low- and middle-income countries, and the challenges to developing such guidance.