Table 5 Ranking of Topics in the Reference List and Differences by Income Region and by Project Initiation
From: Health policy and systems research agendas in developing countries
| RANK | TOPIC | INCOME REGION | PROJECT INITIATION | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Low | Lower Middle | Upper Middle | Donors | Govnt. | Research Institution | ||
| 1 | Sector Analysis | -- | - | ||||
| 2 | Disease burden | -- | |||||
| 3 | Management & organization | + | -- | ||||
| 4 | Accessibility | + | + | -- | -- | ||
| Programme evaluation | -- | ||||||
| Research to evidence | - | - | + | ||||
| 5 | Financing | - | ++ | ++ | -- | ||
| Human resources | + | ||||||
| 6 | Community participation | - | + | + | ++ | ||
| Costing & cost effectiveness | -- | + | + | +++ | |||
| Decentralisation/local health systems | - | +++ | + | ||||
| Information, Education and Communication | + | ||||||
| Insurance | -- | +++ | - | + | |||
| Pharmaceutical policy & management | |||||||
| Quality | + | ||||||
| 7 | Equity | - | +++ | + | +++ | ||
| Policy process | - | +++ | |||||
| 8 | Economic policy and health | - | + | + | + | ||
| Information systems | + | + | |||||