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ReviewJournal of public health policy2025

An integrated framework to guide evidence-informed public health policymaking.

Michelle M Haby, Ludovic Reveiz, Rebekah Thomas, Helen Jordan

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Review in Journal of public health policy, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers.

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16citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

16 citing papers in PubMed.

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  4. Rethinking the role of health technology assessment: from gatekeeper to health system shaper.International journal of technology assessment in health care · 2026
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  9. Evidence-informed policies: tools for decision-making in the Brazilian Unified Health System.Epidemiologia e servicos de saude : revista do Sistema Unico de Saude do Brasil · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Michelle M HabyDepartment of Chemical and Biological Sciences, Faculty of Biological and Health Sciences, Universidad de Sonora, Hermosillo, Mexico. haby@unimelb.edu.au.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6203-9195
Ludovic ReveizEvidence and Intelligence for Action in Health, Pan American Health Organization, Washington, DC, USA.
Rebekah ThomasScience Division, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland.
Helen JordanMelbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia.

Funding

World Health Organization 001
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Evidence-informed policymaking emphasizes that policy decisions should be informed by the best available evidence from research and follow a systematic and transparent approach. For public health policymaking we can learn from existing practices of transparent, evidence-informed decision-making for clinical practice, medicines, and medical technology. We review existing evidence-to-decision frameworks, as well as frameworks and theories for policymaking to address the political dimension of policymaking, and use this analysis to propose an integrated framework to guide evidence-informed policymaking. The framework includes nine decision-making criteria and allows for the addition of other context-specific criteria. It also emphasizes elements of the decision-making process that can give greater legitimacy, fairness, and transparency to the policy decision, such as the use of deliberative processes and assessment of conflicts of interest. We offer the framework as a tool to help government policy makers use evidence in a structured and transparent way when making decisions about public health policy options.

Indexed as

Evidence-Based MedicineEvidence-Based PracticeHealth PolicyPolicy MakingPublic HealthDecision MakingHumansPoliticsConflict of interestDeliberative processEvidence-informed policymakingPublic health policyStakeholder

Identifiers

PMID39799247
PMCPMC11893451

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