ID	Source (Year)	Design/Methods	Country	Scope/Setting	Aim of study
1	Dos Santos, et al. (2015)	Case study	Brazil	Public health system in a Southeastern town	Presents the application of the Analytic Network Process and Balanced Scorecard in the performance evaluation.
2	Mutale, et al. (2016)	Interventional/Mix Methods	Zambia	Three rural district	Present a proposed framework for evaluating a new health system strengthening intervention.
3	Kruk and Freeman (2008)	Literature review	-	Health system	Propose a framework for the assessment of health system performance and review the literature on indicators.
4	Terner, et al. (2013)	Review, survey	Canada	Primary healthcare	Update primary healthcare indicators for use across Canada.
5	Tian, et al. (2013)	Cross-sectional	China	Rural public health system	Providing the up-to-date evidence and a performance assessment toolbox for assessing the trends of public health services accessibility and financial protection in rural china from 2008 to 2010, as well as the current situation about the china’s rural public health system performance.
6	Tawfik-Shukor, et al. (2007)	Cross-sectional	Netherlands and Ontario, Canada	Health system	Comparing health system performance approaches in the Netherlands and Ontario, Canada
7	Jahanmehr, et al. (2015)	System thinking, literature review and interview	Iran	Deputy of health	Design a conceptual framework, according to the policies and priorities of the ministry of health to evaluate provincial health and primary care performance.
8	Handler, et al. (2001)	Expert panel	USA	Public health system	Describes a unifying conceptual framework for the public health system as a way to facilitate the measurement of public health system performance
9	Edward, et al. (2011)	Cross-sectional	Afghanistan	health system	Illustrate the performance trends in delivering the basic package of health services during 5 year period (2004-2008)
10	Shahri, et al. (2016)	Descriptive, analytical, and practical (Questionnaire)	Iran	health system	Determine factors evaluating the performance of health systems based of structural equation modeling.
11	Van den berg, et al. (2014)	Review	Netherlands	Health system	Discuss the development process of the Dutch Health Care Performance Report (DHCPR) including the conceptual approach of assessment the health care system.
12	Pasarin, et al. (2013)	Observation, expert panel, cognitive interview, and questionnaire	Span	Primary care	To obtain versions of the primary care assessment tools (PCAT) - facility version to evaluate primary care in Spanish context and analyze its feasibility, reliability, and validity.
13	Sun, et al. (2017)	Economic analysis of efficiency	173 countries	National health system	Examine the efficiency of national health systems using longitudinal country-level data.
14	Rohova, et al. (2017)	Review article	Bulgaria	International and national level	Review the current state of research on health system performance assessment at international and national level.
15	Pallas, et al. (2012)	Review article	Low and middle income countries (LMICs)	Health service delivery organization	Develop a taxonomy of strategy areas and a conceptual framework for selecting strategies to improve performance of health service delivery organizations.
16	Hofmarcher, et al. (2016)	Review and expert panel	EU member states	Health system	Develop a blueprint of a platform to feature a set of headline indicators and relevant meta-information for HSPA across EU member states.
17	Yakob and Ncama (2017)	Cross-sectional	Ethiopia (Wolaita Zone)	Health system responsiveness at facility level	Innovatively measure health system responsiveness and correlates in the context of HIV/AIDS treatment and care services.
18	Gauld, et al. (2011)	Benchmark	New Zealand	Health system	Develop a national scorecard for assessing health system performance derived from routine data.
19	Carinci, et al. (2015)	Modified Delphi, consensus meeting	OECD countries	Health system	Review and update the conceptual framework, indicator content of the OECD health care quality indicators (HCQI) project.