OBJECTIVE To discover lessons from 10 national health and social care quality programmes in the Netherlands. DESIGN A mixed-methods comparison using a 'quantitative summarization of evidence for systematic comparison'. Each research team assessed whether there was evidence from their evaluation to support or refute 17 hypotheses about successful implementation of quality programmes. The progr...

BACKGROUND Strengthening health research is an important objective for international health organisations, but there has been less attention to support for health research in Europe. We describe the public-health (population and organisational level) research systems in the 27 European Union countries. METHODS We developed a typology for describing health research structures based on funding ...

There is growing recognition that operational research (OR) should be embedded into national disease control programmes. However, much of the current OR capacity building schemes are still predominantly driven by international agencies with limited integration into national disease control programmes. We demonstrated that it is possible to achieve a more sustainable capacity building effort acr...

The European training syllabus in paediatric respiratory medicine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1588 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1588 Aims of training. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1588 Training programme. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1589 The trainee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1591 Training centres/tuto...

Environmental evaluation is discussed in the context of national development in developing countries. The paper makes a case for evaluation to move beyond evaluating individual interventions to assessing the contributions to sustainable development at the national and international levels. It highlights challenges relating to evaluating environment in national development, as well as aggregatio...

762 International Council for Control of Iodine Deficiency Disorders, C/Centre for Health Promotion, Women’s and Children’s Hospital, 72 King William Road, North Adelaide, SA 5006, Australia. E-mail: [email protected] made up of scientists and public health professionals from a range of disciplines available to assist national programmes; (iii) The development of effective national progra...