SUPPORT Tools for evidence-informed health Policymaking (STP) 17: Dealing with insufficient research evidence

This article is part of a series written for people responsible for making decisions about health policies and programmes and for those who support these decision makers.In this article, we address the issue of decision making in situations in which there is insufficient evidence at hand. Policymakers often have insufficient evidence to know with certainty what the impacts of a health policy or programme option will be, but they must still make …