Use of evidence to support healthy public policy: a policy effectiveness-feasibility loop
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Use of evidence to support healthy public policy: a policy effectiveness-feasibility loop.
Public policy plays a key role in improving population health and in the control of diseases, including non-communicable diseases. However, an evidence-based approach to formulating healthy public policy has been difficult to implement, partly on account of barriers that hinder integrated work between researchers and policy-makers. This paper describes a "policy effectiveness-feasibility loop" ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Bulletin of the World Health Organization
سال: 2012
ISSN: 0042-9686
DOI: 10.2471/blt.12.104968