Situation analysis on evidence-informed health policy-making: Estonia (2019)

EVIPNet Europe Series, No 3

The aim of the situation analysis is to provide deeper understanding of the major factors that may facilitate or hinder the evidence-informed health policy in Estonia. It was conducted based on the WHO situation analysis manual and it found that in order to ensure research use among policy-makers in a systematic way, a knowledge translation platform could be created. A knowledge translation platform is a national-level entity designed to create and nurture links among researchers, policy-makers and other research users. With the aim of using the available resources in the best possible ways in order to obtain good population health outcomes, the platform would support already existing practices in health policy-making with high-quality evidence and implementation considerations. It would support the work of policy-makers and focus on knowledge translation that will help to make evidence available in the policy-making process without limiting choices among decision-makers.