{"id":614,"date":"2013-09-27T10:25:23","date_gmt":"2013-09-27T13:25:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.scielo.org\/en\/?p=614"},"modified":"2016-01-15T15:35:18","modified_gmt":"2016-01-15T17:35:18","slug":"evipnet-brazil-encourages-a-narrowing-of-the-gap-between-scientific-knowledge-and-health-policies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.scielo.org\/en\/2013\/09\/27\/evipnet-brazil-encourages-a-narrowing-of-the-gap-between-scientific-knowledge-and-health-policies\/","title":{"rendered":"EVIPNet Brazil encourages a narrowing of the gap between scientific knowledge and health policies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/global.evipnet.org\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-620\" title=\"EVIPnet\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.scielo.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/09\/evipnet.png\" alt=\"EVIPnet\" width=\"235\" height=\"119\" \/><\/a>EVIPNet \u2013 Evidence \u2013Informed Policy Network \u2013 is an initiative of the World Health Organization (WHO) whose objective is the promotion of the systematic use of health research evidence in the formulation of health related policies, in order to improve the quality of work undertaken and the implementation of resources. In Brazil, EVIPNet was set up in 2007, by means of a partnership between the Ministry of Health, working through the General Coordination of Knowledge Management of the Department of Science and Technology (<i>Coordena\u00e7\u00e3o Geral de Gest\u00e3o do Conhecimento do Departamento de Ci\u00eancia e Tecnologia<\/i> &#8211; CGGC\/DECIT\/SCTIE\/MS) and the Pan-American Health Organization\u00a0 (PAHO) working through the Latin American and Caribbean Centre for Information in Health Sciences (BIREME).<\/p>\n<p>This alliance of managers, researchers and civil society aims to establish mechanisms which facilitate the use of the results of scientific research in the process of the formulation and implementation of health policies, with the engagement of professionals in the field of Information Science, who can act, as well, in the work groups which are composed of representatives from the different institutions and specialists who have been selected and invited to develop different topics in the training workshops carried out by EVIPNet Brazil. The major task given to the work groups is the production and dissemination of evidence briefs for health policies.<\/p>\n<p>Evidence briefs for policy are one of the products of EVIPNet. Their preparation is based on the SUPPORT methods \u2013 Tools for Evidence-Based Policies. The best evidence available concerning options to address problems which are relevant to health policy are identified, evaluated and synthesized for use by decision makers. The texts produced adopt the language and the formats suitable for the different publics and media, and aim to strengthen communication and increase the capacity for the use of scientific knowledge in the management of SUS is the Public Health System (<i>S<\/i><i>istema <\/i><i>\u00da<\/i><i>nico de <\/i><i>S<\/i><i>a\u00fade<\/i>) of Brazil which provides free access to public health services.<\/p>\n<p>Brazil produced its first evidence-based synthesis in 2010. The focus of this work was the reduction of the perinatal mortality rate in the north and northeast regions of the country, with policy options in the area of primary care. In 2013, three new evidence-based syntheses for policy making were proposed, covering the following topics: maternal mortality and near miss, hypervitaminosis A and combating crack cocaine, in addition to the revision and expansion of the first synthesis of perinatal mortality.<\/p>\n<p>Aiming to support these actions and bringing researchers, decision makers and civil society more closely together, EVIPNet Brazil, in partnership with PAHO\/Bireme, is supporting the creation of the Nuclei of Evidences and Stations of the Virtual Health Library (<i>N\u00facleos de Evid\u00eancias e Esta\u00e7\u00f5es da Biblioteca Virtual de Sa\u00fade<\/i> &#8211; NEv\/EBVS) with the objective of building up local capacities for the incorporation of scientific knowledge to the management of health systems and services. To date, four NEv\u2019s have been implemented in different Brazilian municipalities: Piripiri (PI), Sobral (CE), Recife (PE) and Bras\u00edlia<i> <\/i>(DF).<\/p>\n<h3>Related link<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/brasil.evipnet.org\" target=\"_blank\">brasil.evipnet.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Translated from the original in\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.scielo.org\/blog\/2013\/09\/27\/evipnet-brasil-estimula-a-aproximacao-entre-conhecimento-cientifico-e-politicas-de-saude\/\">Portuguese<\/a>\u00a0by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nicholascopconsulting.com\" target=\"_blank\">Nicholas Cop Consulting<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The use of scientific research to provide advice for public health policies has been promoted in Brazil since 2007 by the Evidence-Informed Policy Network through the production and dissemination of evidence briefs for health policies. Resulting from a partnership between the Ministry of Health and BIREME\/PAHO\/WHO, EVIPNet seeks to increase the use of scientific knowledge in the Sistema \u00danico de Sa\u00fade, Brazil&#8217;s Public Health System. <span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span> <span class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.scielo.org\/en\/2013\/09\/27\/evipnet-brazil-encourages-a-narrowing-of-the-gap-between-scientific-knowledge-and-health-policies\/\" class=\"more-link\"><span>Read More &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":621,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[41],"class_list":["post-614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-public-policies"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.scielo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.scielo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.scielo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.scielo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.scielo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=614"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blog.scielo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1688,"href":"https:\/\/blog.scielo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614\/revisions\/1688"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.scielo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.scielo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.scielo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.scielo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}