Forwarded: From: "AGBAYANI, Marion O.R." <[log in to unmask]> To: [log in to unmask] “Health Policy and Systems Research: A Methodology Reader” First Reader on Health Policy and Systems Research published This Reader aims to provide a basis of understanding, ideas and experience to strengthen the quality of health policy and systems research (HPSR). It includes a collection of papers that demonstrate the application of different strategies and methods and guidance on the defining features and offers critical steps in conducting health policy and systems research. The publication was edited by Lucy Gilson of the University of Cape Town and London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and published by the Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research. Professor Anne Mills, one of the leading experts in this field states: “Health policy and systems research is a rapidly developing and critically important field of health research, but has lacked any coherent presentation of its nature, scope and methods. This Reader remedies this gap, and will be an indispensable source of guidance for anyone conducting health policy and systems research or wishing to learn about it." The target audience for the Reader includes researchers, teachers and students, as well as those working within health systems, and particularly those working in low-and middle-income countries. The Reader is available electronically on the Alliance web site: http://www.who.int/alliance-hpsr/resources/reader. Limited editions of printed copies for teaching and training institutions in low- and middle-income countries are available upon request from the Alliance Secretariat. ([log in to unmask]) ---- forwarded by Sam Lanfranco ------ ---------------------------------------------- "It is a disgrace to be rich and honoured in an unjust state" -Confucius ---------------------------------------------- Dr Sam Lanfranco (Prof Emeritus & Senior Scholar) Econ, York U., Toronto, Ontario, CANADA - M3J 1P3 email: [log in to unmask] Skype: slanfranco blog: http://samlanfranco.blogspot.com Phone: 613 476-0429 cell: 416-816-2852 Access CANCHID archives at: https://listserv.yorku.ca/archives/canchid.html plus CANCHID subscription management. CANCHID is a joint service of the Canadian Society for International Health < http:www.csih.org > and the Distributed Knowledge Project at York University. Queries to: [log in to unmask]