A call for a backward design to knowledge translation

International Journal of Health Policy and Management

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 1-5

  El Jardali, Fadi ^a,b   Fadlallah, Racha ^a  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT   (Lebanon)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Evidence informed policy; Knowledge translation (KT); Lebanon; Research utilization

Indexed keywords

EID: 85002496979     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23225939     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.15171/ijhpm.2015.10     Document Type: Editorial

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