A pathway to a stronger research culture in health policy

BACKGROUND: There are currently limited pathways into a career in health policy research in Australia, due in part to a serious absence of health policy research capability in Australian universities. DISCUSSION: We define what we consider health policy research and education should comprise. We the...

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Autores principales: Smith-Merry, Jennifer, Gillespie, James, Leeder, Stephen R
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2007
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2104534/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17927814
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1743-8462-4-19
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description BACKGROUND: There are currently limited pathways into a career in health policy research in Australia, due in part to a serious absence of health policy research capability in Australian universities. DISCUSSION: We define what we consider health policy research and education should comprise. We then examine what is currently on offer and propose ways to strengthen health policy research in Australia. SUMMARY: This paper, which is part analysis and part commentary, is offered to provoke wider debate about how health policy research can be nurtured in Australia.
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spelling pubmed-21045342007-12-04 A pathway to a stronger research culture in health policy Smith-Merry, Jennifer Gillespie, James Leeder, Stephen R Aust New Zealand Health Policy Debate BACKGROUND: There are currently limited pathways into a career in health policy research in Australia, due in part to a serious absence of health policy research capability in Australian universities. DISCUSSION: We define what we consider health policy research and education should comprise. We then examine what is currently on offer and propose ways to strengthen health policy research in Australia. SUMMARY: This paper, which is part analysis and part commentary, is offered to provoke wider debate about how health policy research can be nurtured in Australia. BioMed Central 2007-10-10 /pmc/articles/PMC2104534/ /pubmed/17927814 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1743-8462-4-19 Text en Copyright © 2007 Smith-Merry et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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