Getting research findings into practice and policy: Barriers and bridges to evidence-informed public health

Building bridges between research, policy and practice in public health.

The article examines core elements of the national and international discussion on the required integration between research, policy and practice in public health, and provides input for this integration. Some conceptual barriers and other barriers at different spheres that interfere with the desired integration are discussed. Evidence has shown that research, policy and practice in health are ...

Getting research into policy and practice.

Getting evidence into policy and practice: perspective of a health research funder.

“We have in hand most of the information we need to facilitate a new golden age of medicine. And what we don’t have in hand we can get fairly readily by wise investment in targeted research and intervention.” This “dangerous idea” (Ewald, 2007) was put forward by Paul Ewald, an evolutionary biologist. His idea has merit and is consistent with the way we, at the Canadian Institutes of Health Res...

Getting research into clinical practice - barriers and solutions.

The success of current efforts towards evidence-based health services in many countries depends on efficient transfer of research findings to health practitioners. However, there is a lag in research being adopted. In part this is due to difficulties in interpreting or generalising research findings, in part to inertia, organisational structures and information. Clinical guidelines are usually ...

Evidence Based Public Health Policy and Practice

Study objectives: The study investigated the prevalence and associated factors (media coverage in particular) of stress related responses to the December 2004 tsunami. Design: An anonymous population based cross sectional telephone survey was conducted. Post-traumatic stress symptom was measured by the locally validated Chinese impact of event scale (CIES) and whether the respondent felt distur...