Pierre-Gerlier Forest and his colleagues make a strong argument for the need to expand policy capacity among healthcare actors. In this commentary, I develop an additional argument in support of Forest et al view. Forest et al rightly point to the need to have embedded policy experts to successfully translate healthcare reform policy into healthcare change. Translation of externally generated i...

hospital libraries are libraries for the use of patients and employees that are managed by hospitals or interested organizations. these libraries provide knowledge- based information services in the field of medical sciences and health. this paper note is based on library and descriptive method and reviewing the previous literature about hospital libraries was written in persian. so evaluation ...

policy capacity focuses on the managerial and organizational abilities to inform policy decisions with sound research and analysis, and facilitate policy implementation with operational efficiency. it stems from a view of the policy process that is rational and positivistic, in which optimal policy choices can be identified, selected, and implemented with objectivity. by itself, however, policy...