Survey of Argentine health researchers on the use of evidence in policymaking

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2015, Pages

  Corluka, Adrijana ^a   Hyder, Adnan A ^a   Segura, Elsa ^b   Winch, Peter ^a   McLean, Robert K D ^c,d  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b Ministry of Health ^*  (Argentina)

^c INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Canada)

^d CANADIAN INSTITUTES OF HEALTH RESEARCH   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGENTINA; CONSENSUS DEVELOPMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; EDUCATION; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEADERSHIP; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PERCEPTION; PUBLICATION; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SATISFACTION; SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE; SCIENTIST; WORK ENVIRONMENT; MANAGEMENT;

ARGENTINA; DECISION MAKING; HEALTH POLICY; HUMANS; POLICY MAKING;

EID: 84957824928     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0125711     Document Type: Article

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