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      Building the Field of Health Policy and Systems Research: An Agenda for Action

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          In the final article in a series addressing the current challenges and opportunities for the development of Health Policy and Systems Research (HPSR), Sara Bennett and colleagues lay out an agenda for action moving forward.

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          Building the Field of Health Policy and Systems Research: Framing the Questions

          Kabir Sheikh, Lucy Gilson, Irene Akua Agyepong … (2011)
          In the first of a series of articles addressing the current challenges and opportunities for the development of Health Policy & Systems Research (HPSR), Kabir Sheikh and colleagues lay out the main questions vexing the field.
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            Building the Field of Health Policy and Systems Research: Social Science Matters

            Lucy Gilson, Kara Hanson, Kabir Sheikh … (2011)
            In the second in a series of articles addressing the current challenges and opportunities for the development of Health Policy and Systems Research (HPSR), Lucy Gilson and colleagues argue the importance of insights from the social sciences.
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              Building capacity in health research in the developing world.

              Mary Ann Lansang, Rodolfo Dennis (2004)
              Strong national health research systems are needed to improve health systems and attain better health. For developing countries to indigenize health research systems, it is essential to build research capacity. We review the positive features and weaknesses of various approaches to capacity building, emphasizing that complementary approaches to human resource development work best in the context of a systems and long-term perspective. As a key element of capacity building, countries must also address issues related to the enabling environment, in particular: leadership, career structure, critical mass, infrastructure, information access and interfaces between research producers and users. The success of efforts to build capacity in developing countries will ultimately depend on political will and credibility, adequate financing, and a responsive capacity-building plan that is based on a thorough situational analysis of the resources needed for health research and the inequities and gaps in health care. Greater national and international investment in capacity building in developing countries has the greatest potential for securing dynamic and agile knowledge systems that can deliver better health and equity, now and in the future.
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                Journal ID (nlm-ta): PLoS Med
                Journal ID (publisher-id): PLoS
                Journal ID (pmc): plosmed
                Title: PLoS Medicine
                Publisher: Public Library of Science (San Francisco, USA )
                ISSN (Print): 1549-1277
                ISSN (Electronic): 1549-1676
                Publication date Collection: August 2011
                Publication date (Print): August 2011
                Publication date (Electronic): 30 August 2011
                Volume: 8
                Issue: 8
                Electronic Location Identifier: e1001081
                Affiliations
                [1 ]Health Systems Program, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
                [2 ]Ghana Health Service, Accra, Ghana and University of Ghana School of Public Health, Legon, Ghana
                [3 ]Public Health Foundation of India, New Delhi, India
                [4 ]Department of Global Health and Development, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom
                [5 ]School of Public Health, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda
                [6 ]School of Public Health and Family Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
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                Wrote the first draft of the manuscript: SB IA KS KH FS LG. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: SB IA KS KH FS LG. ICMJE criteria for authorship read and met: SB IA KS KH FS LG. Agree with manuscript′s results and conclusions: SB IA KS KH FS LG.

                The Policy Forum allows health policy makers around the world to discuss challenges and opportunities for improving health care in their societies.

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                Publisher ID: PMEDICINE-D-11-00781
                DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1001081
                PMC ID: 3168867
                PubMed ID: 21918641
                SO-VID: 1e248a09-36c5-4281-a3a7-6a57683a7874
                Copyright © Bennett et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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                Pages: 5
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                Subject: Policy Forum
                Subject: Medicine
                Subject: Global Health

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