The WHO Action Network on Measuring Population and Organizational HealthLiteracy (M-POHL) initiated a project on Evidence-based Policy and Practice (EVPOP) with the aim of collecting and synthesizing evidence on effective policies and interventions. As a first step, EVPOP created a policy guide that follows the logic of the well-known Public Health Action Cycle. The cycle has five steps, starting with situation analysis, continuing with agenda setting, policy development, policy implementation, evaluation and monitoring.
To facilitate countries using the EVPOP Policy Guide, it comes along with a checklist that supports the assessment of each step. To gain insights into where M-POHL member countries stand in relation to their HL policy journey, an exploratory survey was conducted using this checklist amongst M-POHL
member countries. The results are published in this factsheet.