Policy-research linkage: What we have learned from providing a rapid response facility for international healthcare comparisons to the department of health in England

Evidence and Policy

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 245-254

  Ettelt, Stefanie ^a   Mays, Nicholas ^a   Nolte, Ellen ^b  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b RAND CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

International comparisons; Linkage and exchange; Research policy relationship

Indexed keywords

EID: 84879363048     PISSN: 17442648     EISSN: 17442656     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1332/174426413X662608     Document Type: Article

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