What factors affect evidence-informed policymaking in public health? Protocol for a systematic review of qualitative evidence using thematic synthesis

Systematic Reviews

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Verboom, Ben ^a,b   Montgomery, Paul ^a   Bennett, Sara ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

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

Author keywords

Evidence use; Evidence informed policy; Evidence to policy processes; Public health; Public health policy; Qualitative evidence synthesis; Qualitative research

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DATA EXTRACTION; DATA SYNTHESIS; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; POLITICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; PUBLICATION; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUALITY CONTROL; SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; THEMATIC ANALYSIS; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; LITERATURE; MANAGEMENT; METHODOLOGY; PUBLIC HEALTH;

EVIDENCE-BASED PRACTICE; HUMANS; POLICY MAKING; PUBLIC HEALTH; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RESEARCH DESIGN; REVIEW LITERATURE AS TOPIC;

EID: 84963542456     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20464053     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13643-016-0240-6     Document Type: Article

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