The Big Society needs robust public health evaluation
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The Big Society needs robust public health evaluation.
B. Taylor et al. cogently analyse the UK coalition government’s ‘Big Society’ policy, highlight five areas of challenge to delivering health improvement within the Big Society Framework and recommend that a stepwise, supported and appropriately evaluated approach is essential if the challenges are to be met. The last point regarding the need for appropriate evaluation is key. As the authors and...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Public Health
سال: 2011
ISSN: 1741-3842,1741-3850
DOI: 10.1093/pubmed/fdr007