PHM-Exch> Launch of the new Health Systems Evidence website

[Claudio Schuftan]

From: Ruggiero, Mrs. Ana Lucia (WDC)
crossposted from: EQUIDAD at listserv.paho.org


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Launch of the new Health Systems Evidence website

McMaster Health Forum
December, 2011

Website:  http://bit.ly/tdZgSi




Health Systems Evidence is a valuable resource for policymakers,
stakeholders and researchers seeking to address today’s most pressing
health challenges. It provides answers on questions about how to strengthen
or reform health systems, or how to get cost-effective programs, services
and drugs to those who need them.

The redeveloped website offers numerous enhancements, including new open
search and advanced search functionalities, and is available in seven
languages: Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Portuguese, Russian and
Spanish.

Health Systems Evidence, a continuously updated repository of syntheses of
research evidence about health system governance, financial and delivery
arrangements, has expanded dramatically since its launch less than two
years ago. It also includes syntheses of research about implementation
strategies that can support change in health systems, and is now adding
economic evaluations in these same domains, descriptions of health system
reforms, and descriptions of health systems.

The database currently contains nearly 2,000 records that are coded with
additional details such as the quality of the synthesis, how recently the
search for the studies was conducted, and the countries in which the
studies included in the synthesis were conducted. Key findings of the
documents are available through links to user-friendly summaries written by
any of nine groups in the world.

Other enhancements added with the relaunch of Health Systems Evidence
include a comprehensive synonyms dictionary that cuts through the different
jargon in use within and across countries, a filter that allows users to
identify evidence that targets low- and middle-income countries, and a
customizable evidence service that will provide monthly email alerts
identifying new documents available in the database specific to someone’s
individual interests.



Video tutorial about Health Systems Evidence - McMaster Health Forum
http://bit.ly/tf88y9 on how to make the best use of the site is provided,
which will assist users to rapidly identify the best available research on
a particular health system topic.

Health Systems Evidence is supported by a collaboration with the Program in
Policy Decision-making at McMaster University, Cochrane Canada and its
Policy Liaison Office, the Health Information Research Unit’s McMaster PLUS
and McMaster Search Filters, and Rx for Change.

Translations of the site into the six languages other than English is
supported by World Health Organization (WHO) regional offices for the
Americas (Pan American Health Organization PAHO/WHO), Europe and the
Eastern Mediterranean, the American University of Beirut and the
Evidence-Based Medicine Centre at Lanzhou University in China.
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