New public health Research is part of the political process

BMJ 1994;308:1568-1569 (11 June)

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New public health Research is part of the political process

EDITOR, - Jan P Vandenbroucke, in commenting on the new publichealth. acknowledges the perennial relevance of equity, ecology,and the environment but advises that the energy behind the rhetoricbe directed in "good ways" to avoid "academic downfall."¹ Hispoint is well made, but he says nothing of the opportunitiesand progress that are being made. We recently addressed theseissues at a conference in Liverpool (Health in cities: researchand change in urban community health) drawing on experienceof the WHO Healthy Cities Project² and Health for All initiativesto address two key questions:

(1) what research methods are appropriate for assessing needsand evaluating the Health for All process and outcomes, and

(2) how can the research findings be translated into policy,and what are the barriers?

The conference heard that, if research is to be made more relevantto policy makers, there needs to be greater . . . [Full text of this article]

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