Does health intervention research have real world policy and practice impacts: Testing a new impact assessment tool

Health Research Policy and Systems

Volumn 13, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Cohen, Gillian ^a   Schroeder, Jacqueline ^a   Newson, Robyn ^b   King, Lesley ^b   Rychetnik, Lucie ^a,c   Milat, Andrew J ^a,d   Bauman, Adrian E ^b   Redman, Sally ^e   Chapman, Simon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (Australia)

^d NSW Ministry of Health   (Australia)

^e SAX INSTITUTE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Intervention research; Policy; Research impact; Research translation

Indexed keywords

AUSTRALIA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERVENTION STUDY; INTERVIEW; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PUBLIC HEALTH; SCIENTIST; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; PROCEDURES; PROGRAM EVALUATION; TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH; UTILIZATION;

EVIDENCE-BASED PRACTICE; HEALTH POLICY; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMANS; PROGRAM EVALUATION; TRANSLATIONAL MEDICAL RESEARCH;

EID: 84964693477     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14784505     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1478-4505-13-3     Document Type: Article

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