Health policy analysis: A tool to evaluate in policy documents the alignment between policy statements and intended outcomes

Australian Health Review

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 405-413

  Cheung, K Katherine ^a   Mirzaei, Masoud ^b   Leeder, Stephen ^a  

^a University of Sydney   (Australia)

^b SHAHID SADOUGHI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

chronic disease; criteria; internal validity; policy formulation

Indexed keywords

EID: 78649657324     PISSN: 01565788     EISSN: 14498944     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/AH09767     Document Type: Article

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