FOR HEALTH POLICY MAKERS

SUPPORT Tools for Policymakers
SUPPORT has developed a series of 19 articles (called ‘SUPPORT Tools for Policymakers’, or STP), which describe processes to help ensure that relevant research is identified, appraised and used appropriately to inform health policymaking.  These articles (STP) were published in the Biomed Central open access journal Health and Research Policy and Systems 2009, Vol 7. For more information about the series and translations of the series to Chinese, French, Portuguese and Spanish click here.

SUPPORT Summaries
SUPPORT has prepared concise summaries of the best available evidence of the effects of health systems interventions as well as maternal and child health interventions for low and middle-income countries.

SUPPORT Summaries include

• Audit and feedback
• Conditional cash transfers
• Contracting out
• Educational outreach
• Integration of health services
• Lay health workers
• Private for-profit health sector
• Specialist outreach
• Task shifting from doctors to nurses

See all the summaries

FOR RESEARCHERS

Tools and training

Free resources for conducting trials in low and middle-income countries.

Trial Protocol Tool
Open-access tools that provide training and mentoring in designing, conducting and analysing trials.

Trial Management Tool
A tool to support the management of trials

Other tools

• Precis (pdf 1022 kb) Assess pragmatism of a controlled clinical trial. Developed by Dave Sackett.
• Support Tutorial
• NorthStar for LMICs (Zip format, 31 371 kb)