Determinants of evidence use in public health policy making: Results from a study across six EU countries

Ien van de Goor, Riitta-Maija Hämäläinen, Ahmed Syed, Cathrine Juel Lau, Petru Sandu, Hilde Spitters, Leena Eklund Karlsson, Diana Dulf, Adriana Valente, Tommaso Castellani and Arja R. Aro

Health Policy, 2017, vol. 121, issue 3, 273-281

Abstract: The knowledge-practice gap in public health is widely known. The importance of using different types of evidence for the development of effective health promotion has also been emphasized.

Keywords: Policy development process; Evidence-informed policy; Public health policy; Barriers and facilitators; Semi-structured interviews; Individual and social factors; Policy context; Structural collaboration between researchers and policy makers (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1016/j.healthpol.2017.01.003

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