Challenges in evaluating Welfare to Work policy interventions: Would an RCT design have been the answer to all our problems?

BMC Public Health

Volumn 10, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Skivington, Kathryn ^a   McCartney, Gerry ^a   Thomson, Hilary ^a   Bond, Lyndal ^a  

^a MRC SOCIAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH SCIENCES UNIT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONSULTATION; EMPLOYMENT; ETHICS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERVENTION STUDY; LEGAL ASPECT; MALE; MANAGEMENT; METHODOLOGY; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); SOCIAL WELFARE; STANDARD; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADULT; CONSULTANTS; DATA COLLECTION; EMPLOYMENT; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HUMANS; INTERVENTION STUDIES; MALE; POLICY MAKING; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; RESEARCH DESIGN; SOCIAL WELFARE;

EID: 77952175948     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-10-254     Document Type: Article

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