Public Health
Volume 123, Issue 9 , Pages 583-586 , September 2009

Relationship between evidence and policy: A case of evidence-based policy or policy-based evidence?

  • D.J. Hunter

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Received 20 June 2009 ,Accepted 24 June 2009.

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PII: S0033-3506(09)00202-9

doi: 10.1016/j.puhe.2009.07.011

Public Health
Volume 123, Issue 9 , Pages 583-586 , September 2009