Evidence-based policy and practice: Key challenges for improvement

Australian Journal of Social Issues

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 509-526

  Cherney, Adrian ^a   Head, Brian ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Capacity building; Evidence based policy and practice; Policy implementation; Program evaluation

Indexed keywords

EID: 79551483514     PISSN: 01576321     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/j.1839-4655.2010.tb00195.x     Document Type: Article

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