Policy-relevant population health research: new approaches and opportunities

Policy-relevant population health research: new approaches and opportunities.

The Population Health Division of the NSW Department of Health has developed a 5-year strategy to improve the effectiveness of its resource investment in population health research. This paper describes the development of the strategy, Promoting the generation and effective use of population health research in NSW: a Strategy for NSW Health 2011–2015. A review of Australian and international st...

Iranian Population Policy and Aging: New Health Concerns

How state rural health directors obtain policy-relevant research information.

Several types of activities are mandated by grants that help support the state offices. First, state offices collect and disseminate information. State offices provide data and information to consumers, providers, policy makers, and other stakeholders. Information is disseminated to individual clients, as well as via newsletters. Topics are varied; examples include extent of underserved populat...

Portability in clouds: approaches and research opportunities

The migration towards Cloud environments is still hindered by several barriers. One of them is the low portability of the applications that are consuming Cloud services. This paper intends to provide an image of the state of the art in this particular topic and to identify the potential paths to follow in order to solve the problem. The main concerns are the portability reasons, scenarios, taxo...

Environmental futures research: experiences, approaches, and opportunities

Despite these diffi culties, the need to think about the future of social-ecological systems cannot be avoided. Th e defi nition of sustainability includes the notion of non-decreasing wealth: sustainable policies meet the needs of the present without undermining future generations’ ability to meet their needs (Arrow et al. 2004). Inevitably, environmental actions aff ect future generations as ...