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What's new in the Alliance HPSR?
WHAT IS THE ALLIANCE HPSR?
The Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research is an international collaboration based in the WHO Geneva. It has its origins in the recommendations of the 1996 report of WHO's Ad Hoc Committee on Health Research which identified lack of health policy and systems research as a key problem impeding the improvement of health outcomes in low and middle income countries. It aims to promote the generation and use of health policy and systems research as a means to improve the health systems of developing countries.
Health policy and systems research (HPSR) has been defined as the production and application of knowledge to improve how societies organize themselves in order to achieve health goals. It encompasses how societies plan, manage and finance health services as well as investigation of the role and interests of different actors in the health system. HPSR is a topic area, not a discipline and draws upon a variety of contributing disciplines, including economics, sociology, anthropology, political science and epidemiology.
The Alliance gratefully acknowledges funding from the Department for International Development (DFID, United Kingdom), the Australian Government's overseas aid program (AusAID), the International Development Research Center (IDRC, Canada), the Government of Norway and Sida-SAREC (Sweden).
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