What can we learn from interventions that aim to increase policy-makers' capacity to use research? A realist scoping review

Health Research Policy and Systems

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2018, Pages

  Haynes, Abby ^a,b   Rowbotham, Samantha J ^c,d   Redman, Sally ^a   Brennan, Sue ^e   Williamson, Anna ^a   Moore, Gabriel ^a,b  

^a SAX INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c University of Sydney   (Australia)

^d The Australian Prevention Partnership Centre   (Australia)

^e MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Capacity building; Health policy; Interventions; Knowledge mobilisation; Realist review; Research utilisation; Scoping review

Indexed keywords

CAPACITY BUILDING; DRAWING; EXPLORATORY RESEARCH; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MENTORING; REVIEW; SKILL; THEORETICAL STUDY; ADMINISTRATIVE PERSONNEL; MANAGEMENT; RESEARCH;

ADMINISTRATIVE PERSONNEL; CAPACITY BUILDING; HEALTH POLICY; HUMANS; POLICY MAKING; RESEARCH;

EID: 85045212145     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14784505     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12961-018-0277-1     Document Type: Review

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