Table 2

Case descriptions and the length of the video documentaries

Case
Brief description
Length
(minutes: seconds)
Weblinks


A short introduction to the eight case descriptions
1:30
AF 4-1

REACH Policy Initiative, East Africa
An initiative to create a multi-national unit that will act as a bridge between research and policy in the East African Community (comprising Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda)
8:26
AF 4-2

Thailand
A constellation of research units that informed the development and evaluated the implementation of Thailand's nascent universal health insurance program, known popularly as the 30 Baht scheme
7:46
AF 4-3

Free State, South Africa
A set of long term relationships between provincial policy-makers and researchers and the tensions that can arise in these relationships
9:55
AF 4-4

Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme, Australia and South Africa
An evidence-based drug assessment and pricing scheme in Australia and South Africa
9:18
AF 4–5

Philippines
An initiative to address conflicts of interest and inequity in the production of clinical practice guidelines
9:01
AF 4–6

Chile
An initiative to use clinical practice guidelines to make the best use of scarce resources
7:48
AF 4–7

National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE), United Kingdom
A unit producing guidelines and health technology assessments with a new focus on producing evidence-based pubic health guidelines to address health inequalities
6:12
AF 4–8

Mexico
A comprehensive effort to draw on research evidence to inform the development, implementation and evaluation of the new health insurance scheme
8:41
AF 4–9

Lavis et al. Implementation Science 2008 3:56   doi:10.1186/1748-5908-3-56

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